4-16-2024-Temples-of-the-Spirit

This morning, I came across the below in my emails and found that it spoke to me.

The past few weeks I have been struggling with looking for God. I have felt that the search is going nowhere. Just the act of prayer has felt cold and fruitless. I search in what feels like a dark room, staggering about and bumping into unseen obstacles.

What I need to keep in mind, and it is a challenge for me to do so, is that spiritual growth is just that, growth. Growth can be challenging and certainly does not always take the easy road. But growth is necessary and even in the darkest and coldest of times, the Lord is leading the way.

I seldom do this but I would like to ask for your support in way of prayer, that through grace, I may find light in this dark room.

Have you ever lost your keys and ended up searching all over the place? Maybe you even look in the same drawer two or three times? You know they’re around, but they just don’t seem to be anywhere.

Well, sometimes this is how it is with God too.

We know He is everywhere. We know that because of Confirmation and Baptism He is even in our souls. But we don’t always experience it. It can often feel like God is a stranger in our souls. We don’t hear Him. We don’t see Him. We don’t always even feel Him.

It can be hard to admit, but searching for the Lord is tough. And, just like checking the same cabinet over and over again to find the keys, looking for God in our souls can feel pointless, or even like a waste of time. So sometimes, we even stop looking.

But Jesus tells us that “the one who seeks, finds” (Mt. 7:8). Do we really believe Him? Are we prepared to keep looking for Him even when we can’t seem to find anything? Living with faith isn’t about things feeling good, or getting immediate results. It’s about seeking even when it feels pointless. It’s about trusting even when it seems hopeless.

Constantly searching for the Lord in our hearts and in our lives can be grueling. But sometimes, even though you’ve already checked the drawer a thousand times, you look again and find the keys sitting there ready to be grasped.

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