Life is a rollercoaster ride!

 

Life is a rollercoaster ride!

Is it just me? Is there anyone out there who rides the rollercoaster too? I can’t seem to get off of it! One week things are up and then two weeks they’re back down. Just like a rollercoaster. You ride up a little while and you drop straight down. Then maybe there’s a sharp curve or a “loop-d-loop”! You have no control! You are along for the ride whether you like it or not! It doesn’t matter if you are the guy in the back with white knucles, eyes closed as tight as humanly possible, screaming at the top of your lungs or the guy in the front hoopin’ and hollerin’ with a big smile on your face. You are in it until the end of the ride comes! There is no choice in the matter about how long or how fast or how scary or anything!! You are there for the duration!

That pretty much sounds like life in a nutshell to me! Up and down, left and right, twisting and turning! Then when you get done with the ride you’re on before you kow it you find yourself on a new one! Twisting and turning again. Why? Who knows? A test or a trial, what does it matter? We have to ride the ride no matter what! Why not ride it to the best of our ability and try enjoying it in the process? “How do you do that?”you ask. Through the strength of Jesus Christ and the words of the Holy Bible!

I wish I were able to tell you that I always do what I should or react to a new situation in a way that would make Jesus proud, but I can’t! Because I fail often and usually pretty miserably when I do. I get rattled by events and my schedule gets out of whack and the next thing you know I missed two or three days reading my Everyday Bible or I get in a hurry and forget my prayers. I always feel terrible when I realize what I’ve done but I still did it! So I have come to realize that not only is my life like a rollercoaster ride but so is my Christian attitude apparently!

My Christian attitude has to be out of whack if I am allowing “anything” to stop me from readng my Bible, or praying, or going to chapel at OMA, or Wednesday night Bible study or Celebrate Recovery. Something is out of whack in my relationship with God if I don’t feel His presence around me and I am not in His will. Since God is always doing good and loves me like I know He does then I have not doubt where the problem lies. It’s in me! My flesh jumps up and interferes with my attitude. For whatever reason, it makes no difference, I get mad, depressed, rattled, distracted, and I seperate myself from God. I need Him with me and yet I do things that contradict my true heart’s desire, to know Him more!

I just want to know Him more! More than ever before! More intamitely! More passionately! I would not have such bad days if I could consistantly give myself over to His will in every situation that comes my way! Every situation! No matter the severity, no matter the pleasentry! Always in His will! Seeking Him and His will in what ever situation I find myself in…. but can I do that? I don’t know! But, I do know this…

I will never quit trying! I will never give up! Even until my last breath I will not give up “trying” to live the way I know Christ wants me to live! I have read His word… I have seen the examples of how to live life the way the Lord wants me to,,, I have seen great men in the Bible fail and get up again and move forward in the Lord. I have seen great men fail and never recover from that failure, but never have I seen God fail. Nowhere in His word does it tell me of God failing anyone even one time! Nowhere! And HE has never failed me! Not once! He will not fail me! I may fail Him but I will never have anything to worry about as long as I stay in His will. Come what may, if I am in His will and lean upon Him instead of my own understanding, I will make it through to the other side and Jesus will be waiting there when I emerge from the storm! Praise God!

So, tomorrow I will get up, again, and I will ride the ride, again! Come what may I am going to do my best to succeed tomorrow! And if I fail, I will get up and dust myself off and try, try again! Day after day, week after week, month after month, until I am old and gray I will continue my efforts! I have no way of telling you how successful I will be… but I can tell you this… with God on my side, what could I possibly have to fear? What is there in this world that is too hard for God? He created everything and He knows everything… even down to the number of hairs on my head!

Praise God for His love, Praise God for His Son who guides me, and Praise His Holy Spirit who comforts me!