Not That Into the Relationship?

What Exit 83 is Talking About This Month 

By Matt Sasso, Pastor of Student Ministries 

Every one of us has experienced it at some point. At one time, we were really into a relationship – whether it was a friendship or a dating relationship – and now, well, not so much. We’re just not that into it anymore. So we walk away or we let the relationship die. But what happens when that relationship you’re not that into anymore is the one you have with God? You were really into Him at one point. You were feeling connected, directed, and close. Now it feels like nothing. How do you deal with it?

There is a natural ebb and flow to our relationships, isn’t there? Times when we feel really close to someone, and times when we don’t. The reasons vary, but there are times when we’re just not feeling that into a relationship. But what happens when these feelings occur in our relationship with God? And when it does, why is it so difficult to admit it?

When you’re not that into a relationship, you have a choice – to stay or to go. God has made it very clear in the Bible that He’s not going anywhere. He’s in. We, though, are the ones who struggle with the choice, and that struggle sometimes involves fighting our own feelings and perceptions. It’s a fight that we have to be willing to face and a decision each of us has to make. While it may feel like it, God isn’t going anywhere. In these times we have to fight our own tendencies to pull away.

This month we want students to see that they have the choice to choose to strengthen their relationship with God, and that every week there are caring adults who want them to know how much God loves them.