Memo From the Mann2 Dec 2024

Should I ...?

“Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” ~ Zechariah 7:3

How many time have you caught yourself doing something that you weren’t aware of. Maybe your hands were idling themselves with unknown movements; or your leg were bouncing with anticipation, or maybe your feet were tapping out an annoying rhythm.

We are prone to doing some really curious stuff when we’re asked to perform repetitive actions. You know, the ones that require little to know thought ...we’ve done them a million times before and we navigate through them without so much as a thought.

In Zechariah 7:3 the people ask, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

God asks, whom were you fasting for in the first place?

Was it really for me?

As it turned out, God had never asked them to fast.

In fact God’s yearly Israelite calendar was filled with feasting.

Except for Yom Kippur.

The key question to every religious practice is for whom is it for?

When you take a step back and look at your religious practices, ask yourself for whom are you doing them?

Religion usually means doing godly things for yourself,

relationship means doing selfless things for God.

Religion makes you look good to others,

relationship makes you love God no matter what other people think.

Father, help us to be focused on your wants and desires, and not on other people and world around us.

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