The Roller Coaster of life

The Roller Coaster is Nauseating....

Between periods of excitement, boredom and depression appears to disrupt the rhythm. Like a curtain pulled across the stage after an opera, it leaves you wondering what is next on the agenda. As the deafening silence pierces through the air and darkness engulfs you, restlessness sweeps in and your heart begins to pound faster. The memory of the recent excitement provides very little comfort and no consolation and your heart craves for more. The frenzy of a new experience, a new friendship, and new love suddenly crashes down before your face leaving an emptiness longing to be filled once again.
With desperation you grab for more excitement -drugs, sex, movies, new clothes, new furniture, etc. Another spike of excitement is triggered, but just like your previous experiences you are again left empty and longing for more. Like Solomon, you pick up new vocations, set goals and targets for yourself and bury your heart in a rat race to avoid the torture of that void and emptiness. You are certain this will bring lasing satisfaction and provide fulfillment, but again you experience that cold and clammy feeling -"a chasing after the wind", he calls it.
The highs and lows become unpredictable and anxiety increases. Like a roller coaster, you get nauseated and life indeed seems meaningless.

In John 8, Jesus made a remarkable statement to a woman who was well acquainted with this roller coaster of life. She had been married multiple times seeking for a persistent elated state, but disappointed and depressed. Jesus saw her frustration and educated her "Anyone who drinks this water will thirst again. But he who drinks the water I give will never thirst again".

In this world - a dry and patched land, we can always find rivers of refreshment in Gods presence. All the buzz we need in life can be found when we commune with God in prayer. He calls it "rivers of living water from our bellies". No wonder David said," I was glad when they said to me, let us go into the house of the Lord".

- Jason Ikeme 7/6/14