Hang on for the ride

Every now and again I do click on those external links and videos that people are constantly posting on Facebook or Twitter. Here's one I came across the other day...



I have a bike - but it's not a mountain bike and I would certainly not attempt anything like this. Once this guy is on his bike it's clear that he's not your average cyclist and I doubt his bike cost about £150 from Halfords. 

I wonder how many times this guy had to fall off in order to perfect some of these tricks? Obviously you don't go from riding along a residential street to riding backwards balanced on your front wheel or somersaulting over a barbed wire fence over night. You also don't learn that kind of stuff without falling off and hurting yourself a few times.

I haven't just posted this on here because I think it's a great video - although it is. But as I watched this through for the third or fourth time I got thinking about faith. God makes us some incredible promises, including the promise of the Holy Spirit. But when it comes to obeying the things that God has asked us to do, I wonder whether too often I settle for ... a quiet ride of my bike around the local park rather than learn to bunny hop. And then because I can't bunny hop God can't teach me to ... and because I never had the courage to learn how to ... God can't then teach me to ... And so I never make it out of the local park, I never make it to a mountain ridge across the Isle of Skye.

God invites us to trust him and hang on for the ride.