Dry Seasons

Yes dry seasons. I am talking about dry seasons. If you don’t know what dry season is, for me personally dry season is when you feel completely disconnected, numb, discouraged, kind of not motivated to do anything and there is to do with God. Like you don’t have any motivation to go to church or pray or worship or you just don’t feel that fire anymore.

The first thing I want to say is that this is a hundred percent normal in Christian life, so if you haven’t gone through a dry season, you will go through a dry season. Everything is in season.

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.” Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 ESV

There is a time for a dry season and there is a time for a Jesus yes season. If we didn’t have dry seasons and we were just on a spiritual high all the time, I don’t think there would be any growth in our lives because nothing would change. There would be a season of time when you have heaviness and you feel so weak that you have to lean on God and really find the energy within ourselves to ask for help. And to understand having a dry season which means gaining knowledge, learning and keep learning.

There isn’t like a special magical answer here that is going to make you fall in love with Jesus right away. But you have to push through it, you have to get up every day, you have to try and pray. I mean honestly it is great. Because you know our God is so cool that we could be like,”God I don’t feel you and it sucks. Like I want to feel you but I don’t know what happen, like is there anything in my life going on that I need to check or just help me to feel you again and help me like speak to me in your word and help me feel your word." Just be raw, be organic. He wants that. I mean you have to be real with God, continue to pray, continue to try read your bible. If you don’t, don’t beat yourself up. I am not saying that don't read your bible, but like if you don’t, don't let the guilt consumed you. Try to do the normal things that you do even if it is numb, because trust me, it is working in your heart even if you don’t feel like it is.

A huge thing that changed my life this year recently is I started joining a new community. I can pray with people and be surrounded by other people who love God. It is just encouraging. Like it is hard to go and be untouched and even if you feel you are untouched, like you will see see that it is starting to change you. I strongly recommend that if you are going through a dry season or being in any season of your life and you get plucked into a church, it is completely worth it.