the story so far...

my experiences with God and life

May 14, 2010 1:03am

I’m ready to get off of this roller coaster…

With all the highs come lows. We’ve all been taught this for the better part of our lives. I remember first hearing life described this way when I was becoming a teenager and my mother decided that I should go though a booklet to help me discover God as I grew and went through puberty. It’s sad to say, but most of the stuff didn’t stick like it should and I went off and did my own thing for a while.

One thing from this ‘course’ that I remember was that about how life can be a roller coaster, filled with ups and downs. For the most part, this is very true, not only for a Christian, but also for a non-Christian. We experience points in life where things cannot get any better. Other times, we really feel like we want to just crawl into a hole and die. For me, it’s been like this for the past few weeks. And I’m talking about some huge swings here and there.

I am getting a better understanding of why the wild swings are happening and how I need to try and combat them. Most of the craziness going on is from fighting my own thoughts. I have this tendency to over analyze certain situations and come up with different outcomes and adjust previous situations to my liking. In doing so, I’m trying to play the role of God, which is a very, very bad thing. The worst part of it all is that I tend to do this frequently. The frequency of all of this usually causes undue suffering and pain.

There is, however, something that helps with this: faith in God.

Look at what God has done over the course of…time. He’s created the world, created all life, and the universe. How can we not have faith in God to take care of the small stuff as well as the big? Our God is huge, larger than any concept we as humans have, and we still put God in a box and don’t place any faith in Him. He will take care of us and He will guide us through life as long as we have faith in Him and serve Him. I want to say it isn’t that hard, but it is. Giving up that feeling of control over our own lives is tough.

We want to be in control, make our own decisions, and live life how we want to. The thing is that God does have the control, whether we like it or not. Believing in God and having faith in Him won’t help in lessening the amount of peaks and valleys on this roller coaster, but He’ll make them much easier to stomach.