Our Sunday blogs during Lent will focus on the subject of fasting.
"The Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it became ill. David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. So the elders of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the ground. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them." (Second Samuel 12:15-17).
Perhaps in our more skeptical moments we could say this engagement of fasting was a lost cause from the start. The prophet Nathan had already decreed to David that the child would certainly die (verse 14). But David had a depth of knowledge of the mercy of God which he expressed in this "against-all-odds" fast.
How do we know this? Because David said so. "While the child was still alive I fasted and wept because I thought, 'Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.'" (verse 22)
What about you? Are you facing a situation that seems to be a lost cause? In the face of hopelessness, you can still appeal to the mercy of God. Who knows? Perhaps the LORD will show pity.
"The Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it became ill. David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. So the elders of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the ground. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them." (Second Samuel 12:15-17).
Perhaps in our more skeptical moments we could say this engagement of fasting was a lost cause from the start. The prophet Nathan had already decreed to David that the child would certainly die (verse 14). But David had a depth of knowledge of the mercy of God which he expressed in this "against-all-odds" fast.
How do we know this? Because David said so. "While the child was still alive I fasted and wept because I thought, 'Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.'" (verse 22)
What about you? Are you facing a situation that seems to be a lost cause? In the face of hopelessness, you can still appeal to the mercy of God. Who knows? Perhaps the LORD will show pity.
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