Intimacy with God 4

Bill Bright
As you remember what your first love was like, you gain perspective, the height from which you have fallen. Rev 2:5 describes the forsaking of your first love as a height from which you have fallen.
2 Cor 7:9-10
I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
When you hurt deeply as you realize that the love has gone out of your faith, that is godly sorro. The right kind of sorrow leads to repentance-a hating of sin.
God is not hiding from you. If you feel separated from Him, that is a good pain, the unmistakable sign of His presence drawing you back to Him. As you feel the ache in your Spirit, you know God is near, the discomfort is His way of telling you that your relationship needs special care. You may feel dry, but it is not the dryness of death-it is a yearning for life.

Sometimes it is necessary to move through a period of sorrow to reach the destination of joy. Remembering from where you have fallen. You once basked in the warm safe and secure presence of your Father. But with the ignorance of a child, you stayed from His warm, loving arms and wandered farther and farther away.
If you can no longer see Him , it may well be that you’re simply facing the wrong way. Nobody likes to stop to ask for directions, but isn’t it so much worse to be lost? God is near, just turn. Sometimes it takes a good bit of resolve to make that turn. You become comfortable in your sin. Your lungs because accustomed to bad air.
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