Dealing with Spiritual Lows

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ means following him and seeking to know him more. But what about those times when we don't feel like following? What about the times when we pray earnestly for help, healing or strength and it feels like nothing is happening? What about the times when it seems like we're doing all the right things, but nothing seems to be working out?

How frustrating it can be when we seek to serve Him and life just seems to be grinding us down. We try to be spiritual leaders in our home and we find ourselves yelling at our kids again. What about when people persecute us because we follow Jesus? Or when we give our best effort at work and it goes unrecognized and unappreciated? Or what happens when really hard times come; we lose our job, our family falls apart, illness sets in?

It's at times like these---our spiritual lows--when our natural human tendency is to run away from God that we need Him the most. Jesus himself promised that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled (Matthew 5:6). Filled with the love and mercy of the Creator of the Universe. Filled with His cleansing grace. Filled with the power and might of the One whose strength is made perfect in our weakness (Philippians 4:13).

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ means we are following the perfection of God's creation; the one who shows us humanity as it was meant to be. Our Savior has maintained a continued, unbroken relationship with the Father. And through the power of the Holy Spirit by the shed blood of Christ, we have access to that same relationship. A relationship we need during both the highs and the lows in our spiritual walk.