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Day 4: Old Testiment Fast
I was going to talk about what i learned from a book...but now i will tell what i learned from a story, it was called 99 Balloons. Its a true story about a child being born that wasnt supposed to be born, with everything going against it, bad lungs, hole in his heart, faulty cells. He had to be fed through a feeding tube, and had to have help breathing. The parents were so proud of him, and the child was such a blessing to them. The baby Dies...and instead of cursing God, saying 'HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN TO US!' Like Job, they blessed God, saying 'This child showed more truth than anyone behind a pulpit or anyone who wrote a book, in his short 99 days on earth' The story made me cry...I mean i cryed. I guess it goes along with what i was going to say, and that is faith. God takes more joy out of our faithfullness than anything else. Christianity is about faith, faith wholy in God, and the story of Job, and the story of these parents show one thing, that we dont have to show faith in God just for things. Its shows, that its not all about us, its about God, its all about Him. Can you say that your life is all about him? And no I'm not saying here, 'can you say you are without sin?' because lets face it we are all terrible sinners and I am probably worse than all of you...the things I have done...the things i have said...and the thoughts i have entertained...You can make your life all about God, and not be sinless, now you cant have your life all about God and live in CONTINUAL SIN, its called Grace, Paul sayed 'we are saved by grace not by works, lest we should boast'. Now i know this is my Old Testiment Fast BUT without the New the Old is incomplete so i have to put some aspects of the New Testiment, but now I'm off subject. Faith is the most important, its reflected in the Old and the New testiment. Faith is what Christianity is about(faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior)
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