This weekend I rode a bike for the first time in about 10 years. And let me tell you it felt amazing! This may seem like a trivial event, silly even. However there is so much significance behind this event.
For some context when I was 12 riding my bike pride took over. I began to explain to my friends that I could in fact beat my sister no mater how for ahead she was. ( At the time I didn’t realize it was because I was on a road bike and she was o a mountain bike. GO figure.) As I turned back into the driveway my tire gets stuck between the grass and driveway. I fall over and the handle bars drive into my side. I vowed never to ride a bike again.
Until this weekend.
So I only biked in a small circle yet I wanted to continue for a long time. In that short spurt of biking I felt joy and peace! My past hurts were no longer in control of me. This led me to think about other areas of my life that I may have gotten use to not doing something out of fear.
I recognized I that needed/desired even to get back into the practice of stopping and listening to God during my quite time. I had stopped this out of fear of what God might say. Not a lot of trust there I know.
Just as my experience with the bike hurt me, last summer when I was faced with a decision anxiety about listening to God and making the right choice recked me. The anxiety that riddled me was exhausting, embarrassing, and stripped me of enjoying listening to God.
Just like I need to be intentional in getting back on the bike I also need to be intentional about my walk with Christ. I got use to reading, journaling and done. Yet I knew I’d done more before and had felt more before.
I have decided to: Sit. And. Listen. This like my bike riding has stored fear in my heart because of the past yet Gods sweetness is on the other side of a quite heart and mind.
Today I challenge you to find something whether seemingly silly like ridding a bike or deeper such as sitting and listening. Sometimes we get comfortable in our fear. God has called you to the other side of this.
2 Timothy 1:7 reminds us that, “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
