21 Days of Fasting and Praying

For the past few years, my attempts to fast & pray during these period that leads up to Resurrection Sunday has been in vain. I was either too greedy to fast or too lazy to seriously spend time in prayer.

However, this year, I really want to see certain areas in my life changed. I feel that this year, I really need to fast & pray to see these changes. It's not that God needs to be bribe by prayer & fasting. I'm beginning to see that this world is govern by principles and laws. And prayer & fasting is one of those principles.

To me, fasting & praying is a way of telling God and myself that I'm really serious about wanting to change and I'm committed to it. Anyway, I decided to start by going on a mixture of vegetables, fruits & liquid fast, no meat, for the whole day if I can or just during the night (unless got family dinner).

I was just wondering, apart from Christianity, is there any other religion that talks about a God who ask you to call Him Father? That tells you of a God who loves the world so much that He takes it upon Himself to get rid of their sin so that they can come back to Him? Is there any other God besides the one I know who tells you that you can come to Him anytime, anywhere with any problem and He understands and He can do something about it?

Someone may think, oh, she's so religious, fasting & praying. I don't see it that way because I see religiousness as doing something right without a relationship. There's a difference between helping your mum to wash up because you were told to do so and you don't want to be scolded AND helping your mum to wash up because you love her and you want to help her.

The essence of Christianity is a love relationship with God who made us for relationship. And it's true because for all of us, relationships are the most important. They shape who we are, especially our relationship with our family.

So yeah...I just feel that for the past few years, God has slowly been leading me to a point where I look back and realize that things have happened in my life that made me who I am now and that if I continue being so, I'll never get to where I should be I need to let Him change these things so that I can get there.