I remember I went to Six flags with some friends from college. I was so excited to get away for the weekend from school to hang out with my friends, enjoy the rides, the shows and the food. Even the weather was perfect, it was going to be a great day. The very first ride my friends wanted to do was of course a roller coaster. Not just any roller coaster but the largest with the most insane loop the loops. What was I thinking? I knew I got motion sickness before but that was years ago. I thought to myself well maybe things will be different this time and I let my friends talk me into it and the next thing you know, I’m being taken on a ride from hell as my whole stomach dropped and my whole body was in pain, I thought I was going to die. My body just screamed out in pain, “Moron, what were you thinking ?!” My whole day was shot after that, I ended up spending the rest of what could’ve been an enjoyable time with friends, in the nurses office passed out on one of those doctors tables. Why did I do it? I thought it would be fun, I saw the coaster it looked like it was going give me an incredible rush, my friends all told me to suck it up, but yet I knew from my past experiences that roller coasters made me sick. Yet I did it anyway and suffered the consequences. Isn’t it true how sometimes in life we make choices based on our impulses, our feelings at the moment, bad counsel from others and instead of being wise and discerning we get on the roller coaster of hell again? Whether it’s a bad relationship we just keep getting into or it’s a habit we can’t seem to break and we keep telling ourselves, it’ll be different this time, she’s changed, or he won’t hit me anymore and we ignore the past. Instead of letting the Holy Spirit and His wisdom lead us, we get right back on this crazy roller coaster for one more go, only to find ourselves worse off than when we started. Esau in Genesis was like that. He gave up His birthright for a bowl of porridge. He gave up the will of God and the blessings of God for his life all because he was hungry. How about us? I know for me, I put myself on that roller coaster many times but I’m done. I’m tired of it and fed up with it. I’m not letting my feelings lead me anymore, I want His Spirit to lead me and if that means He puts me on a slower ride without all the loop the loops than so be it. I’d rather be singing “it’s a small small world” knowing Jesus is with me on that ride, than all alone in a nurses office cleaning up the vomit of my stupidity once again because I chose the merry go round for morons!

Proverbs 3:13
13 Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding,

Romans 8:14
For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Proverbs 12:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Genesis 25:29-34