BIG IDEA: Focus on giving something up
Question. What's something you're pretty sure you couldn't live without? Pizza? Ice cream? Video games? Your phone?
If we're honest, there are probably a lot of things we act like we couldn't live without — but we totally could. In some
cases, giving up those things for a little while might even be what's best for us. There's an ancient spiritual practice
called "fasting." Maybe you've heard of it. It's the act of giving something up, for a specific period of time, in order to
spend more time focusing on God. But in Matthew 6, Jesus confronted some religious people about the ways they
misunderstood and misused fasting. Instead of making their fasts something between them and God, they used their
fasts to get attention and praise. But that's not the point of fasting at all. Whether we decide to temporarily give up
pizza, ice cream, video games, or so much time looking at our phones, the point of fasting is to grow our closeness
with God. That's the power of focusing on giving something up.

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