Without God, Life Sucks!

I don't know why, but I do it everytime. I get so comfortable with the way life is going that I forget that God is the reason as to why it may be going so well. I started this senior year living the life. I had friends, parties, just loving life. Where did God fit into all of this? To be honest, I saw Him as a burden and something that I didn't have time for. What happened as a result? I lost at least half of my friends. I am made fun of almost every day in school and have a lot of people who don't like me. I live day to day wondering why I am here. I figured meh I'll just go back to Him whenever. Not how it works. Saying "okay God, games over time to come back to you" just doesn't always cut it. We expect Him to work in our lives, but yet we make no effort whatsoever to draw nearer to Him. I kept wondering why God wasn't taking the pain away and why things still completely sucked. I was begging Him, but I wasn't doing what He was asking of me. Was I spending time with Him? Nope, I still thought that it was His job to fix things. The thing is, He doesn't even promise to take those things away. But when Christ is so sufficient in your life and you are ever so close to Him, His compassion and love pour out on you so much that the pains in your life are drowned out by that. Life lesson, hard, but good!