Get On Your Bike

Posted by:

Joel A'Bell

10 August, 2010

Can you remember how old you were when you first started to ride a bike?
Mine came out of the garage on Christmas day with colored streamers out of the handle grips and shiny silver spokes on what seemed to be the future of transportation in my little mind!
Just to gaze at it was magnificent. And then I had to get on and learn how to ride it.

The more confident I became, the more daring I was to prove that I could do this but it wasn't long (same day) before there were tears and blood and refusal to to continue on what had started out to be the best day of my life.

Oh how life can change!
What came next was completely unexpected "Get on your bike".
Why on earth would my Dad want me to suffer again like that?

I guess we fall off many times throughout our lives and the temptation is to stay off and figure out a different way to move through the years.
I am learning that my response to every situation in life determines whether I will be willing to get back on my bike and keep going.
Many times I have wanted to just stay on the ground and wait for God to come and find me, and help me. It has been my experience that God most often meets me on the run, even in the middle of a wobble or the getting back on part.

Isaiah 59:5 "My deliverance arrives on the run, my salvation right on time."

No matter where life's situations find you, let me encourage you to take a big, deep breath, lift your head and Get On Your Bike!

Joel

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