April 2005
Q: I feel so blah spiritually right now. What do you do when you really don’t feel like being a good little Christian and you don’t care?
A: We all go through good and bad points. Your life with continue to shift up and down, backwards and sideways. The good news is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you.
The important thing is to realize that this blah feeling WILL PASS. Don’t hold on to it. When you get comfortable with your spiritual “dead” feeling is when things get bad. Satan wants you to stay in this spiritual rut, he doesn’t want you to regain that connectedness with Christ. Don’t give in to the lies and deceiving thoughts or feelings.
Remember that this time will only last a short while. Concentrate on getting out of it.
Continue to do what you’ve always done. Read the Bible. Maybe switch things up a bit with a different devotional book. Spend time in personal worship. Pray rather than doing a devotional. The important thing is for you to NOT STOP getting in touch with God every day, even if it’s only for a few minutes and not the two-hour quiet times you used to have (yeah, don’t we all wish). Read the Word and do your best to slog through this emotional mire.
God will meet you halfway. It won’t happen immediately, but it will happen. Don’t get caught doing something you shouldn’t be. Concentrate on doing your best so that God will be pleased that you at least tried.
Why does He allow these drifting periods? I can’t really answer that, there are often lots of different reasons, and some of them God’s prerogative alone. Just trust that He IS following your life, He IS in control of everything that happens to you, and He DOES care about how you turn out.
A lot of times, faith is walking out--acting out--even when you don’t see anything to back you up. And once you act out your faith, God hurries over to unburden you, saying, “There, that’s good, I just wanted to see you do that.”
Push on.
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