Even though the fasts God referred to here would have been unnecessary if His people had repented, these verses still give us an important principle about fasting. When we eat, we eat for ourselves, with nothing more than our own satisfaction in mind. But when we fast, we should do so with God in mind, for His pleasure. When I sit down before the “gospel bird,” my fried chicken, after church on Sunday, I don’t pick up a leg or thigh and wonder what the associate pastor at our church is doing. I know