In the United States only 80 miles seperate the highest point of land and the lowest point in the lower 48 states.
Mount Whitney on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park in California is 14,496 feet high, and a pool called Badwater in Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level.
In our journey with God there are times when spiritual growth seems to just happen and it's as if we are so close to God that nothing could ever bring us down.
And then it happens. We stop going to church, we don't pray, we don't feel like opening the Bible. We wake up and find ourselves in some low place that we never thought we would be.
Sometimes, in the midst of adversity, the best thing to do is sit and listen to what God is trying to tell us. What does He want us to learn from this experience? How does He want us to respond?
We seek out Jesus when we are going though personal struggles. The faith developed there comes from desperation. Now, life is going decently, and that faith, that trust that Jesus can save me from horrible place, isn't the same that drives me to him for relationship and day-to-day existence.
Let us run with endurance the race that God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from start to finish. Hebrews 12:1-2 , NLT
We need to have a faith in God that can grow in the times of plenty in the same way that it does in times of need, and all the places in between.
