Here's a Thought

Have you ever said to anyone "I am having a spiritual low lately?" You probably have said to someone that "I am on a great spiritual high recently." The thought I have is do we really have spiritual highs and lows. The obvious answer you would think is yes we can have spiritual highs and lows. Yet, when I think of God and the Holy Spirit I wonder is it possible for them to ever be a low or not amazing. This makes me think a lot about the times in our lives where we say we are in spiritual low place. God never tells us life is going to be perfect or that we are not going to have problems. He does tell us that we should rejoice in our sufferings and praise him in our hard times. So then, how can low times be bad if it is supposed to be a time of praise or rejoicing? I not going to try and explain in a short article why and how we should rejoice in our sufferings or praise during hard times. However, if you can do this it will change how you look at all the struggles we go through in life. We grow so much as people of God in the junk we go through. Often I look back and think about how much I have changed and grown because of the low times I went through. If you look at the Bible it always seems to be written in the form of a Journey. There is a process that God leads people through as they try and live out his will. This makes the "low" times just as amazing as the "high" ones because how would we ever know what a "high" is or appreciate it unless we have been through the valley. The reality is God never leaves us and he is using every situation for his glory and the expanding of his kingdom. How would it change the way we lived if we saw every situation we went through as a blessing and an opportunity? If we realized that God is with us always using every situation for his glory and purposes. Would we still say "I am having a spiritual low" or would we see every moment as a high, because we are with God and under his control? I don't have this figured out or perfected by any means but I do realize I am on a journey with God. I know I will never arrive because just as God is limitless so is the extent to which we can grow in him. May the Lord bless us as we all try and figure out what it means to live as his children.