A friend went on a fast this week. He stopped eating on Wednesday and broke it this morning. That made a total of 4 days. We talked about the effects both physically and spiritually. He talked about how much God had spoken to him during the days of the fast.
As we talked about the experience he had and we started joking about how much our egos get in the way of spiritual growth, and how difficult it is to keep down. We talked about what it would be like to put the ego on a fast. Deny the ego for a length of time in order to achieve deeper spiritual advantage.
How does one do that? I suppose that you need to create an environment where you are thought of as undesirable. I think it would be difficult to create, as we work pretty hard to make sure that at least some part of us in lovable. What if I could do an ego fast? It would allow God to communicate to me that I am a loved and valued child of God, even if I was undesirable to the rest of the world.
But then that would be an ego boost, which your ego could feed on. So would it really be fasting?
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ONCE WE COME TO THE PLACE WHERE WE BEGIN TO KNOW HOW DEEP AND FAR REACHING GOD'S LOVE IS FOR US, LESS AND LESS OF THE EARTHLY EGO COMES UP.
TO LIVE IS CHRIST, TO DIE IS GAIN. SO WHETHER WE LIVE OR DIE IT IS TO CHRIST.
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