Intermittent Fasting is all the diet craze today. This requires people to restrict their eating to an 8 or 10 hour period of the day. If you just do that allegedly, the pounds are supposed to just melt off your body. While it may work for some, it didn’t work for me, so I stopped.
In today’s scripture from Isaiah, God confronts his people who were fasting for all the wrong reasons. They made it an outward show, expecting that God would reward them with blessings. Instead, God expected their hearts to be right with him first out of their love and devotion for him, not because they expected something in return.