Tandem Tales cont...

And just when you thought I didn't have anything else to say about the tandem...

 

I have been known--especially before I took up Crossfit--to pick up my feet and rest while riding bike. And for a while I got away with it. At first, when the rude people in my community would yell obscenities at me like, "Gorda, baja las patas!" (which loosely translated means fatso lower your animal paws) sometimes accompanied by an obscene gesture, Jorge would take all kinds of umbrage, but he never really considered the fact that I was indeed coasting. For the record, I have never been offended and have found this highly amusing.

 

Then one day we went riding at night, and the illumination from the street lights cast the horrible truth: My feet were up on the bar, and the evidence was in the form of a shadow that Jorge could see in, of all places, right in front of him.

 

We both laughed so hard, and as Jorge explains it everything suddenly made sense. No! He wasn't prone to bouts of sudden onset weakness and muscle atrophy as much as I was prone to resting whenever I felt like it leaving him to pick up the slack.

 

Is it fair for one person to do all the work? Is it fair to just sit back, relax, and let God handle it all. You know--bless us, provide for us, protect us, heal us, infuse us with joy and peace, and then never so much as say a little thank You?

 

Not only is it not fair, it's also not biblical.

 

God invites us over and over again to invite Him into our lives on a daily basis (ever heard of the daily bread?) so that we all can live our life to the full. When we fail to maintain a relationship with Him, we lose out on so much, and God loses too because He desires to spend time with His kids.

 

Acts 17:24-28 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything. Rather, He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from any one of us. For in Him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.'"

 

Don't flatter yourself. There not much you can offer to God because He does not need anything, but He does want us because we are His children.

 

Much the same way that tandem bike riding is a lot easier when we both pedal, so is life more of a blessing when we reach out to our heavenly Dad.

 

PRAYER:

Dear Lord,

You give us life and breath and everything else. Thank You. We reach out to You today because you are near and can be found. When we find You through prayer You bless us immeasurably more than if we never spent time with You. In Jesus' name, AMEN~