Post feast let down

If you have been in the church for a while you will know exactly what PFL feels like or Post Feast Let Down. It was always something I experienced when you went away and had 8 days or more of millennial type living and then ended up back again after it was over, sometimes starting off in worse shape than you left. For me it has seemingly always been something. Job loss, car repair, house repair, a health crisis, and the list goes on and on. On rare occasions I have come back to good things but they seemed far and few between.

I don’t want to seem so negative but in some ways these times of returns have been experienced by many Christians. In many cases what they returned to was a worse that what I have gone through so my heart goes out to them. Some people along the line stopped going to the feast in order to avoid the let down but soon found missing it was sometimes harder to bear.

It’s important to understand that there are let downs after experiencing a great time regardless of what the event its. Mother and even dads go through postpartum depression after a child is born. In rare cases it end up in death. It is a natural reaction to the come down from an emotional high.

Understand also that Satan also wants to knock you off of the spiritual high you get from the feast. Typically it is when a spiritual attack from him begins is after a spiritual high. Those attacks can include physical things as well as mental. Anything to push you away from carrying forward the blessing and renewal that the Feast brings.

First and form most to deal with Post Feast Letdown we have to remember those to aspects. We come down from an emotional high and Satan will use it as an opportunity to attack us.

How do we deal with it effectively? Like type of adversity in the Christian life we look to Jesus Christ and His father to get through it. Eyes on them and the kingdom above all things around us and happening to us.

Christ throughout time always showed us that we must not get weighed down from the happenings around us but stay looking to him. That also includes when we do in our minds when things are difficult and distract us from the joy of being in Him.

One of these scriptures is Phillipians 4:8

Finally Brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is praiseworthy think of these things.

Again this scripture brings us back to right thinking. It is essential in times like these and beyond.

Your Brother in Christ,

Steve Koenig