The ups... downs... and all arounds....

As a man who walks with God, we have to recognize that we stumble... we have to admit that we fall. We enter seasons where we just struggle to get by and make sense of what God's calling is for us. I feel like the last few weeks has been a season like that for me. It has been hard to really make sense of what it is that God is calling me to do. In that time, I have lost some of my ambition to live a more examined life, I have lost some of my ambition to really get into scripture, to blog, to lead, to learn, et... Some of us know what this time in our lives is like... So today I wanted to write post about what to do when you find yourself in a rut...

One of the best things you can do is go back to the basics... meet with your friends... old friends that build you up and have a history with you in your walk with God. For me this looked like sitting down with Corey Grazul the Youth Pastor at Family Bible Church and dreaming again... Remembering what it would feel like to plant a church... Remembering what it would feel like to use my mind to advance his Kingdom... It felt good, I began to feel the Spirit moving in me again...

A second thing that should be done is holding yourself accountable... Dig up some of your old writing or if you are a thinker like myself, remember the goals that you set for your life and ask yourself if you are really meeting those goals. Begin with easy goals and challenge yourself to engage God again by allowing Him to transform your heart again. Let HIM IN!!! Really this looks like allowing yourself once again to be accountable to God. Perhaps some of you can relate to the act of minimizing God's voice in your head...

A third step that one might choose to engage in is getting back into the Bible. I know it is tough, I know that people struggle staying disciplined, but you've got to do it, find some way, listen to it online, or on a podcast. whatever you can do...

Hopefully these steps can help somebody else out there who is finding themselves in spiritual rut...

Grace and Peace,

Jon