It is easy for the believer to lose sight of the things of God. The clouds from the world arise to obscure the bright prospect, or the evil haze of the flesh wraps the soul in its embrace. Then the sense of the reality of spiritual things passes away, and the sweet serenity and calm of the uplands give place to the restless fever of a soul out of communion with God.
Things nearer at hand remain in view — perhaps the fellowship of Christians or some service undertaken in the brighter days — but the joy, the charm, the reality are gone; everything seems out of focus, for Christ is not seen as the great central Object throwing everything else into its right relation. Then the question arises as to the reality of these things, for no things are so unreal as divine things to the soul out of communion and under the cloud of what is temporal. It may be the memory remains to increase the unhappiness, but Christ is not a present, living reality.
Under such circumstances, what is to be done? There is but one way of escape, and that is to seek the presence of God. We may go to Him assured that He is more desirous that we should live in the power of divine things than we can be; moreover He, who brought us into them at the beginning, is the only One who can restore the joy of them to us when that joy is lost.
J. T. Mawson