Sometimes life is great and my time with God is wonderful and productive. Sometimes life sucks and it seems my time with God is like the car stuck in the mud simply spinning its wheels. So where do I learn more? I guess the answer to that is what it is God is trying to teach me.
The “sometimes life is good” learning is deep, rich and rewarding. Writing, teaching, blogging, and tweeting simply flow out of the things I am learning.
The “sometimes life sucks” learning is a lot harder to understand. Often this is where I have to roll up my sleeves, strap me into a chair and start doing the “mechanical” things of being a Christ-follower. In the moment it doesn’t seem like I am learning anything. I wonder why I even bother. Writing is tough, teaching is dry, and my social presesence goes away. When life is a little less sucky, and I reflect back on this time I see that I have learned valuable things – perseverance, finishing well, dependency on God and other, and often times I have a new perspective on scriptures I may have studied in the past.
I don’t wish the life sucks times on anyone, but then again it can be a time of crying out to God, read many of the Davic Psalms [David had a lot of life sucks moments], it is time to fall back to the basics, it is a time to rely on others in your community [not always an easy thing to do].
If you find yourself in a life sucks moment, turn to God, turn to others, reach for that daily devotional, and persevere in your pursuit of God. He is there with you, walking along side you, just waiting for you to reach out your hand so He can take hold of it.