THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN....

I was just talking with my son-in-love about his recent Facebook posting celebrating his 135lb bench press. Seems his tricep injury of the past had kept him from accomplishing this.  One of the key ingredient's of his healing was a three day fast.  Mike has fasted in the past but this time was different.  He was led to the passage in Isaiah 58:6:  "Is not this the kind of fasting that I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice, and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?"  He asked himself how can I in a practical way loose the chains of injustice.  Holy Spirit led him to make a financial donation to Africa's Child a local thrift store that supports an orphanage in that country.  Then a prayerful spiritual inventory of anyone he needed to release in the area of unforgiveness that would have held a "yoke" upon him.  Mike realized as did I that when we fast their is a condition set forth by the very words of God that their is way of fasting that He chooses not one of my fleshly choosing. If I then am to passionately follow the Rabbi in immediate radical obedience then the prayer and fasting of His choosing must be part of my everyday spiritual discipline.