KEEP PEDALING

I never know what my husband is going to get me for my birthday.  For my 40^th birthday he got me a treadmill, in which he really wanted.  This year he got me a bike.  A beautiful purple bike with a big white seat.  It isn’t just a plain old bike like my granny bike it has 7 gears.  Watch out roads!  I love it.  It pedals so easily and goes really fast.  I don’t really know how to work the gears or what gear does what, but I am learning.  Until then I just keep on pedaling in whatever gear I am in.

Shifting gears, um?  Have you ever had to shift gears? Are you stuck in a certain gear and you can’t get out?  How do we keep on pedaling through life and shift gears?

In life shifting gears isn’t as easy and quick as shifting gears on a bike.  When we need a shift we usually want it to happen immediately, but that doesn’t happen.  We must have patience and know that the situation will shift in due time.  The Lord has a plan and that plan is His not ours.  He knows the perfect timing and when the perfect lesson has been learned.  He will bless us.  Sometimes these blessings are located when our gears have been shifted, sometimes it is after we are finished pedaling and at times the blessing doesn’t even come to us. 

Ephesians 6:12-13 Ephesians 6:12-13New International Version (NIV)

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

Paul tells us in this scripture that Satan is harboring us from shifting our gears.  When we pedal through life we are up against those enemies.  They want us not to be able to shift gears.  They want to keep us in the place that is dark.  There is a constant battle against everyone who is riding with the Lord.

When you are pedaling through life trying to shift gears imagine that you are on a two seater and God is riding in front.  He will shift your gears and keep pedaling for you when you just can’t do it anymore.  He knows what gear does the best work for the best incline.

Pedaling and shifting gears may be a struggle, but with the Lord even the steepest hill will be made easy to climb.

Keep pedaling and shifting!