In fact, to be distressed in a godly way causes people to change the way they think and act and leads them to be saved. No one can regret that. But the distress that the world causes brings only death.
2 Corinthians 7:10
Are you as happy with God today as you were when you first met? Is he still your obsession? Or has the passion faded? Have you fallen into a pattern of making demands rather than adoring him? It can be easy to drift away from that first experience of him. It seems like a natural part of the ebb and flow of love, but for the God Girl it can leave you feeling as if you’ve lost something great.
If your life is off track, if you are unhappy and can’t figure out why, know that the joy probably left when you started thinking more about yourself than about God, more about your worries and your dreams than his thoughts and his plans. When the God Girl isn’t continually thinking about ways to make him happy and to please him, she runs the risk of falling into a pattern of “me.”
The answer then is to make him your sole focus, and the happiness will return. If you realize that you don’t adore him like you used to, that you’ve stopped going out of your way for him, and that you are more concerned with yourself and your world, then let that embarrass and shame you. When you are ashamed, you will find godly distress that “causes people to change the way they think and act,” and you will get back on track. It is not condemnation that drives you back to his arms but conviction. As a God Girl you can’t blame God for the distance between you; your distractions are most often what remove him from the center of your life. You can return to him today—just find out what pleases him and determine to do only that!