“For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.” // Mark 10:27
I feel called to start fasting and intentionally spending more quiet time sitting in the presence of Jesus in Mass and Eucharistic Adoration. And you want to know something? I don’t want to do it!
For the past few months, every time the thought of fasting surfaces to my consciousness, I almost immediately do the opposite and over-indulge in media or food. And when the suggestion of silence enters my prayers, podcasts and music supply the noise I need to brush it off.
But God is persistent. When I think I’m running away from Him, I hear the loving, albeit stern voice whisper my name, and I realize that I’m running on a treadmill going nowhere because He is everywhere.
For me, and maybe for you, there is a bit of fear in fasting and silence, or rather, letting go and listening.
What will be there to comfort and satisfy? What if you can’t do it? What if you don’t perceive the voice of God clearly, or worse yet, don’t like what you do perceive? What if you get hurt? What if someone does it better than you? What if someone else receives a spiritual insight, a tangible feeling, or an intimacy with God and you feel nothing? What if you think you’re doing the right thing and still mess up? What if you feel like God is not enough?
What if we trusted in God and put our faith into action?
Jesus poses a greater pronouncement that we can all too quickly gloss over because we’re heavily focused on our material wealth, inabilities, or worries:
“For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God” (Mark 10:27).
We are a lot stronger than our fears of detachment, ineptness, and discomfort allow us to appraise. And it’s all because we rely on a powerful God Who can do all things.
All things are possible with God!
What will your first step be to leave behind the “what if’s . . .” and make an act of trust in thanksgiving to our God Who conquers impossible things?
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Chika Anyanwu is a Catholic evangelist, speaker, and author of My Encounter: How I Met Jesus In Prayer. Her missionary zeal is inspired by a love of Christ and the Church, the lives of the saints, and a desire to see people live their worth. She was a contributing author to Maranatha: The Story of Our Savior. Find out more here.
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