The Planet of Cham

roller coaster. It just is. I never really noticed it until some major events happen to me this summer that awakened me to this ride. Some days you're coasting and things are great and the next you're are racing down a 280 ft. drop with your stomach in your hair and your voice 3 ft. behind you. There are scary parts like the 5 second silence when you release off of the mountainous hill. There are great parts like the loops and corkscrews. All in all, a roller coaster is a pretty good way of describing our faith journey. 

We have high times in our lives, then we have lows. We have scary silences and we have incredible cheering voices of joy. I think ultimately that is God's plan....to allow life to be a roller coaster. Remember when Jesus showed His glory to the 3 disciples and everything was going well? Peter was like, "this junk is good..let's stay and campout!" (my dirty south emphasis). What happen next? Things went to normal and Jesus was like, "let's go back down the mountain".  From there they casted out demons and went through persecution, but they learned more about Jesus during both situations. Roller coaster. Think about Job's life. One minute the godliest man on the planet blessed out the wazzu, then he is sitting in ashes and crap scrapping boils with nasty broken clay pot pieces. ROLLER COASTER. 

It is very very easy to allow the roller coaster ride to overwhelm you. I know I have over the years. Things get uncomfortable or unbearable...maybe even unfair. Then other times we can forget that we are on it because we have become so enamored with the "blessings" of life. I think ultimately every part of this roller coaster ride is allowed by God to teach us something. That something is about Him. When we are in the lows, He is there. When we are in the Highs, He is there. When corkscrews, silences, and loops get out of control...HE...IS...THERE.  He is not wanting you to have a bad day, week, month, or year, it is this crazy world we live in. HE IS wanting you to learn that eventhough you are on a crazy ride, He is there. He wants you to know Him. Trust Him. And to live with a purpose. His purpose. He created you to enjoy Him and to know Him more, not live comfortably (that is what Heaven is for). So life is a roller coaster, but we don't have to loose focus on our goal...Our God.  ::Psalm 139::  ~Cham