You know that feeling as a kid when you are standing on something high and jump into your parents arms? Or fall back and trust someone to catch you in that crazy trust exercise? Or maybe you you like to hang glide or bungee jump or skydive? We all have something we can relate to that gives us that crazy rush of adrenaline!
Well that's what being a Christian is like. God's love is like a constant feeling of adrenaline.
I was lost in thought the other day. You know how minds can work, they shoot from one thought to the next so quickly and before you know it you are thinking about something and you don't really even know how you got there 😆 hopefully this isn't just me! ha!
I was thinking how this feeling of adrenaline can be so consuming and it brings such a rush of emotion with it. How people seek it out because it feels good! And there are a lot of forms out there to get it. It doesn't have to just be dangerous. Really it is just something that makes us vulnerable right? Something that we could possibly get hurt from? The risk of getting caught stealing, or cheating or lying can be a rush for some people. The hope of a new like or follow or comment on social media can bring people the rush of adrenaline. The freedom someone might feel from jumping out of an airplane or cave diving or volcano surfing (yes that is really a thing 😯) can also do it! Those are different ways that we can expose ourselves to be vulnerable.
There is even a term out there called adrenaline junkies where people are so addicted to the feeling that they are always seeking it because it just feels so good to them. But why are they always seeking it? They are always seeking because everything they are doing to find the adrenaline eventually stops. The feeling doesn't last and then they have to move on to the next thing that fills that need. Always seeking, never being satisfied.
These thoughts were swirling because Zach and I are making some really big decisions right now for our family and it is exciting and the feelings of vulnerability are there. And of course the surge of adrenaline could be there too. But in all of those same thoughts I was thinking how my excitement and my adrenaline doesn't really go away because I feel like walking with the Lord is always an adventure.
My life, our life, is never our own. He is consistently asking me to move and stretch in different ways and that brings me a rush of emotions that I can not compare to anything else I have ever experienced.
And so my final thoughts for today are this, if God is my adrenaline then what more do I need to seek in this lifetime than Him?
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