If you’re a follower of Jesus you’ve probably had it, that “spiritual high.” It’s the greatest thing ever! You feel so connected to God, you want to read your Bible like 10 times a day, you want to talk and listen to Him, you want to go and tell everyone you know and everyone you don’t know how good He is. All of you has the desire to draw closer to Him. Eventually though that high wears off. You still have the desire to please God, but it’s not like that fire you once had inside of you. You get back to a point where you have to make time to read your Bible or maybe you forget to talk to Him and spend time listening to Him throughout the day so right before you go to bed you say a quick prayer because well you need to do at least that. That fire that was once in you is gone.
When I was first told I was accepted to go on The World Race I was on that “spiritual high” and nothing was bringing me down. But then life happened and eventually I came back down from that mountaintop I was on. I catch myself thinking, “man I don’t feel God like I did just a few months ago, what happened.” Then I remember a couple things. 1. God is not merely a feeling. 2. It’s not God that changes, it’s me.
I got busy with school and ministry things and World Race stuff that I let that stuff take over my life. None of those are bad things, but my relationship with God should have been of the utmost importance. I shouldn’t have to MAKE time to read my Bible everyday like it’s some kind of chore I should want to. I should want to talk to God first thing when I wake up instead of checking Facebook and Instagram.
With that being said though, you can’t expect to have that “spiritual high” all of the time. And it is okay to not have that spiritual high all the time, but God wants us to want to grow in Him each and everyday without the feeling of a spiritual high. In a society that is telling us that we need to constantly be busy or entertained or in communication with someone we sadly sometimes forget that God is wanting our attention as well.
