This is going to be so much fun! A nice FAST together! . . . WITH an investigation into God’s comments on Christlikeness! Who could ask for more? Beg pardon? What are we fasting? The Abbess forgot to mention that? Why, here’s the list; it is posted on the Chapter Room door . . . take your pick! Fasting choices for the next forty days . . . Unbelief Complaining Excess Lethargy Idolatry Now then . . . without further ado, Romans 12:1 . . . “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” This is our impetus and our reward, this Christlikeness, but we are faced with three choices. We may 1) dismiss these words as unappealing, unimportant, or un-possible, or we may 2) take a look and set our jaw and determine that we will, by force of will, accomplish this superhuman task, this call to become LIKE CHRIST, or we might 3) present our bodies before our Father today, as per the beseeching of His servant and apostle, from the heart offering ourselves as a living sacrifice because we may, and because God loves us. We may trust that our very decision is holy and acceptable to Him. We may decide by faith that, that whatever “our reasonable service” proves to be, we will receive from Him every aid and assistance, every strength and support, every courage and all constancy from His own heart, mind and power. The Abbess heartily recommends plan #3 . . . and if we choose this L.U.C.I.E. fast, forsaking Lethargy Unbelief Complaining Idolatry Excess ,,, we will finish strong and new and more like Jesus than we ever dreamed we could be! Emaciated Buddha public domain in country of origin
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