A Roller Coaster with God

While in a spiritual discussion with a friend, she said, "Well that's how it is with your walk with God, it's like a roller coaster, sometimes it's high and sometimes it's low!"

This made me think: Why do we have highs and lows with God? 
Especially when He doesn't change. We can't earn His love, it's always covering us, so why don't we always feel it and stay in that euphoric state with Him?

The answer is simple my friends. It's because WE change. WE don't choose to stay in His love. We wander from Him.

He is always there, waiting for us, offering His unconditional love to us, but we are the ones that run from Him, ignore Him, and fair-weather Him away.

In a dating relationship you are excitedly getting to know the person. With Jesus, you can excitedly get to know Him through His Word. The Bible is His Story. History. If you are reading it everyday, then you are getting to know Him more and more. 

And what happens when you have gotten to know someone and you fall in love? You want to shout it from the rooftops!! You want to TELL OTHERS ABOUT THE LOVE YOU HAVE FOUND.

It IS possible to stay in that warm fuzzy with God. But just like a newlywed couple that moves from warm fuzzies to deep mature love, so does our relationship with God move. 

The way love progresses in a healthy relationship is through honesty, communication, putting the other first, and loving them through the hard times just as much as the good. 
Doing these things and acting this way requires commitment, sacrifice, and selflessness. 
So does our relationship with the Lord.

If we are being honest with Him and communicating with Him all day, then we are remaining close with Him. We will feel His presence. 

If we are putting Him first, and praising Him even when times are tough, then we will feel His love.

So staying in a "high" with God is a simple concept: stay in the Word, stay in communication, and pour that love into others!

If you are in a "low" with God right now, just remember HE doesn't change, so He is not responsible for the low.

YOU are the one that can change. So change into the person He has designed you to be: a believer that turns from your selfish ways, takes up your cross, and follows Him, no matter what. (Luke 9:23)

THAT is how you stay in love with the Savior.

Stay close to Him and continue to get to know Him and those lows won't come your way, even in the trials of life, you will consider it ALL joy, just like it says in James 1:2-4, Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds,3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. (NIV)

So let's take "highs and lows with God" out of our vocabulary. It is a lie Satan wants you to believe, that that's just the way it is. Guess what Satan, IT'S NOT. My God doesn't change, and I will stay close to Him no matter what comes my way, because He is worth it, and He will never leave me nor forsake me. #sothere