10 Days is a Fast
Fasting: Return to Dust
Scriptures says that "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." This is a Biblical principle that knows no exception: Pride always attracts God's opposition, and humility always attracts His grace. This is why fasting is so powerful in God's economy. God always responds to humility with His grace.
Human beings are composed of dirt and spirit, of earth and God's breath (Genesis 2). We're made of dirt and divinity. When we fast, we return to the dust from whence we came, tasting a small measure of the death that is our destiny until the Lord returns. Fasting is a way to humble ourselves before God, to return to dirt, to die a little bit in this life, but it is mourning in hope: God gives grace to the humble! We will not always be bowed down, earth bound--but Christ Himself will lift us up to be with Him in glory. Most of all, fasting is an acknowledgement of the absence of Jesus Christ. He predicted in Matthew 9:15 that when He left the earth, His disciples would fast and mourn because of His absence. This October 2-12, I want to encourage all of us to fast as the Lord leads us--it's one of the things God is looking for in this season of humility.