…make space in your day for God / and consider those less fortunate than you.
Fasting is fashionable again (!), with lots of nutritionists and health gurus expounding the benefits of fasting and “intermittent” fasting (12, 14 or 16 hours overnight) to boost our immune systems and self healing, and as an antidote to over consumption!
Funny, it’s forever been part of biblical teaching and discipleship, not for weight loss or physical health (though no doubt God meant that for us as well), but as a way of refocusing ourselves on what’s important.
Read more in this article (for youth) by Martin Saunders: https://www.youthandchildrens.work/Past-Issues/2017/March-2017/Fast-but-not-least
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
Luke 4: 1
