My exciting news.... I worked 6 days straight and have to say that I enjoyed everyone of them, now I just have to keep the days rolling.

I have been looking back over the past months, years during my walk with God, trying to figure out the reasons why some days, weeks and even months it is harder to feel close to God. What is it that actually pulls us away from God?? God never pulls away from us, we are the ones that pull away from him. I am trying to figure this out now, so that I am ready when the time comes to fight to stay close to Him.

One of the biggest things that I can see, is that when God asks me to do something and I really don't want to do it. Instead of just doing it and fighting him on it(because he always wins), I stop listening to him, and I start shutting him out. I gradually seclude myself from him, and it is very gradual.

Another big one is, if I know that I am living in sin. Doing something that I know God really doesn't want me to do, and not stopping and trying to correct it. No matter how much I try to justify it, it always ends up bringing me down, usually pretty hard.

So how do I get out of the mess that I get in, by God's grace, and realizing that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. One of my favorite verses and one that I have read over and over in the past year is:

Romans 8

Life Through the Spirit

1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,[a]
2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature,[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.[c] And so he condemned sin in sinful man,[d] 4in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
6The mind of sinful man[e] is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;
7the sinful mind[f] is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
8Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.