I’ve been traveling over the last month. It’s been fun, tiring, and eye-opening, but why does it feel like I’m further from God through it all?

It happens when we’re busy and we’re accomplishing a lot.

No doubt we have less set aside time with Jesus, less community encounters at our local church, and we have fewer access moments to be in places where we feel comfortable enough to just breathe out with the Holy Spirit.

In times like these when we are going and doing and seeing, it’s hard not to feel like we are doing wrong in a way.

We feel like we have not done our part to stay on top of our relationship with Jesus.

But one extraordinarily beautiful thing about this relationship we have, is that it’s not something we have to lord over. It’s not something we have to hold the threads to, hoping that our grasp doesn’t fail us.

We tend to see our relationship with Jesus like some of our faulty earthly relationships…

Like the one where we weren’t putting enough effort out there and so they dropped us from their life.

Jesus’ relationship with us is not us holding it up, filling expectation, and answering all the calls to receive a top Myspace spot.

Jesus is not the guy that becomes distant from us because we are busy. He’s not the guy who disappears or forgets or even turns away when we have a lot happening.

He isn’t a faulty partner.

In fact, in our faultiness, His perfection is steady.

He isn’t moved by busyness, to find someone better and sitting in a room waiting to hear from Him.

He is with us in our cars, at our terminals, in our random restaurants and in our never-slept-in beds. He is forever bound to us and chooses to see us through no matter where we are.

As He calls us to places, gives us permissions, and highlights paths, He isn’t also scolding us, threatening us or desiring for us to feel bad for what we are doing.

For in this place of majesty, we are drawn to the everlasting beauty that is firmly seated. That no matter where I am, He is also. That this man is the definition of faithful to me.

I know I don’t have it all right yet. I know that there will be many more busy months of my life, but in His confidence of love, I will move into Him in the ways I have yet to experience.

Don’t be doubtful of where He has brought you because your season looks different now. But embrace Him yet where you are. Let thankfulness root you in Him.