Highs or lows.


 We tend to avoid unhappy, whiny, complaining , annoying people and we gravitate towards people are are joyful, grateful, and happy. It’s human nature to avoid those we feel decrease us and lean toward those who we feel increase us! You leave some people feeling totally drained and exhausted by all their drama. We love hanging around others who make us feel good about ourselves, about life in general, about everything. These people fill us up and we enjoy their company. I know which group of people I want to be a part of.

In today’s verse we are reminded that unlike us God wants to be with us no matter which one of those groups of people we currently fall into. You see as life would have it we actually don’t always live in one group or the other. We all go through difficult, drama filled seasons when we are just not much fun to be around. The time when we need close friends is the time we are most unbearable and we end up repelling the very ones we need the most.

Not Jesus. He wants us even when we are unbearable. In fact he wants to be involved in our lives when we are in mourning or we are celebrating. You see he cannot be increased nor decreased by being around us. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We, on the other hand, are definitely blessed when he is near us. He comforts us in our sorrows and celebrates with us in our victories. He doesn’t turn away from us when we are full of drama, drama, drama. Nor does he shy away from us when we are singing songs of triumph. He is with us through all of life’s ups and downs. So regardless if you are praying and crying out due to times of distress or you are praying prayers of thankfulness and singing songs of joy he is right there with you.

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