Reflections with Andy - Why Do You Fast? - Zechariah 7: 1-7

After the Exile is over, several of the people from Bethel go to the prophet and ask this question. Do we still need to fast?  They are asking because the people are back home, and the Temple is being rebuilt. So, must they continue to lament? And the prophet asks this question. Why did you fast?  Why is it that you did what you did?  For God, or for some other reason? Why do we fast?  Why do we do what we do?  Is it to get something from God?  To “make” Him do what we want? Brian Zahnd, in his wonderful book The Wood Between the Worlds, reminds us that thinking like that is paganism. We don’t “do things'' to make God do what we want. We are faithful so we can experience God. 

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