Adrenaline Rush

The body is full of wondrous chemicals.  We all have neuroreceptors that are designed to accept those chemicals, depending on what we are experiencing: thyroid hormone is released for growth, melatonin helps regulate our sleep cycles, etc.

The most commonly known hormone, in my humble opinion, is adrenaline.  We all know what an adrenaline rush feels like, whether from scary movies or extreme sports or harrowing situations.  Some of us seek out that rush; that's where we get thrill junkies or haunted house fanatics or what have you.  Adrenaline causes our bodies to immediately go into hyperdrive, enhancing senses and reflexes.  It's the fight or flight syndrome-when the rush happens, we become almost superhuman.  

I once drove by a car where a woman had inadvertently locked her baby inside, and she came screaming into the street trying to get us to stop so we, my friend Jacob and I, could help her.  Now, we're both grown men, but after prying and pulling we were unable to get into the car even half an inch in order to attempt opening it with a coat hanger.  Deterred, we moved to another door when all of a sudden we both heard "Is this open enough?" and looked up to see that this little, 5'2", 100 lb. woman had nearly ripped her driver's side door off of the car.  

Say what you want about my manhood, but adrenaline allows us to do some pretty awesome things.

The problem we face is that after a while, the receptors wear out.  It's like addiction; the reason addicts crave bigger and bigger doses or hits is because eventually they need more and more to achieve the same level of high.  The chemicals lose potency.  We're then left searching for something else to fill the hole.

It states numerous times in the Bible that God delights in us (Psalm 149:4), finds joy in us, and loves us.  If we are created in His image, shouldn't we seek out those same things?  If God delights in us, shouldn't we in turn delight in Him? 

Stop seeking the ultimate high from this world.  It doesn't exist.  And if you thinking being able to rip a car door off it's hinges is power, just wait until you see what my God can do (Job 38).

"But the Lord is the true God; 
       he is the living God, the eternal King. 
       When he is angry, the earth trembles; 
       the nations cannot endure his wrath.

"Tell them this: 'These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.' "

But God made the earth by his power; 
       he founded the world by his wisdom 
       and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; 
       he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. 
       He sends lightning with the rain 
       and brings out the wind from his storehouses."  Jeremiah 10:10-13