1:53am April 28, 2014

“I hear a lot of people saying, “I don’t feel God anymore.” And there’s a lot of guilt there, like they’re not trying hard enough.

But “not-feeling-God” doesn’t make you a bad Christian: just an honest one. And maybe our baseline for “feeling-Him” got messed up with a false foundation.

Maybe when Life Got Hard, no one taught you a clear theology on pain. Maybe no one mentioned that seasons of doubt, suffering, and detachment are regular valleys in a believer’s life.

Those are also the EXACT times we go to God and tell Him everything. To even say, “I don’t feel you right now, God.” You can tell Him that.

Most of us think we’ve failed God when we don’t feel Him, when it’s actually that feeling of His absence that can either push you to Him or from Him. He’d much rather it be to Him.”

J.S. (via jspark3000)

My friend told me once that God values your prayers more at those times when you can’t feel Him and wonder if He even exists, than at the times when it’s very obvious that He is there.  Not that He doesn’t value them all the time, but that they're more valuable during those ‘dark night of the soul’ times than at any other.

(Full disclosure:  I long since no longer think of myself as Christian, but I still think this is important advice.)

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