A Slow Drift into the Darkness

     We have to be forever mindful of our present mental condition. A slow drift into the darkness can occur without us even being aware of what is happening. My meaning of a slow drift into the darkness is the feeling of the absence of God's spirit within our life. It is not the absence of God by him, it is the absence of God by us. We ever so slowly inch our way into a dark state of mind. We were praising God at one time and now we feel that we are alone and abandoned. Our mind clouded by the darkness somehow does not remember about God's words of comfort and wisdom. 
     When the light dims within our mind, we struggle to make sense of the things that are happening around us. We rely on our own wisdom to figure things out. We become lost within the darkness and waste so much time in our life in just finding a way out. During my own battle with this darkness God took mercy on me. He saw me as his lost sheep that had wander off and he took action to bring me back to him. God's action for me was sending a guiding light into my mental darkness so that my mind would have a direction to go in. What I had forgotten became clear again that life without God's light is darkness. Once again I felt close to God and went about thanking him and praising him for my rescue.
     Why does this drifting into a darkness happen? If you take a good look at our society, it is not about strengthening our spirituality. Our society is more about who is popular, good looking and wealthy. It about fashion and who is trending on the lateness news and gossip. I do not know if our spiritual growth is even on that list. It is so easy to become so distractive from our main purpose in life in becoming closer to God. We will drift slowly into a dark state of mind if we are not spending enough time studying God's word. God is our only protection from the darkness we must put every effort in staying close to him.
     A slow drift into the darkness will occur because we seem to have an habit in forgetting these words. Matthew 4:4 "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." If we do not take these words seriously we will become lost to a dark state of mind. Even if we take care of our bodies our mind will become spiritually starved for God's word. We must have both food for the body and the mind.
      Even if you do become lost to the darkness there is still hope for God will be looking for you and when he finds you he will rescue you because he loves you. Matthew 18:12-14 "What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish."