1 Peter 2:2 NLT

”Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment.”

As you embark on this fasting journey, don't merely focus on your actions. Yes, you are commendably withholding from something this week—well done. However, redirect your attention towards deepening your need and desire for spiritual nourishment.

Fasting is not just about abstaining; it's about cultivating a profound hunger for intimacy with Jesus.

In this scripture passage, Peter encourages the reader to crave pure spiritual milk—a call to pursue the greater thing. It's about saying no to one thing to say yes to something more important: craving more of God.

When you crave a food, it's usually a response to something you genuinely like. Peter invites us to crave like a newborn craves their mother's milk. Remember those nights when your newborn cried incessantly for more? Babies crave their mothers because they are hungry, knowing that once fed, they will be satisfied.

There is a powerful desire in craving.

Reflect on your walk with Jesus—do you similarly crave more?

A healthy craving results in a full experience of salvation. Not a partial touch or a taste, but the complete immersion in salvation. Imagine the impact on your life as you crave, hunger, and desire the things of God more—a full experience of salvation available to everyone who pursues it.

Pray with me: "Father, I want to pursue a greater experience of salvation. Today, I choose to pursue You. I choose to greatly desire what is on Your heart. Lord, build in me an insatiable hunger that will never burn out."