A few days ago I bought a center stand for my motorcycle. My bike has a chain, so popping it up on a stand makes it easier to clean and lubricate the chain.
I've always had just a kickstand, so this was a first for me. I brought the bike home from the shop where I had it installed and decided to give it a try.
I jerked, and tugged and pulled yet nothing I did could get that bike on the stand!
Then my wife, who has a center stand on her own bike, came over and popped it up with ease.
How was that even possible?
My wife asked me to try again as she watched. Then, she noticed that when I pushed the stand down both "legs" of the stand were not on the ground! I could not see this from my vantage point. To me it just appeared that the task was impossible. But as soon as I got the stand settled properly, with almost no effort I was able to get both the bike up and my man card back!
I occurred to me that our walk with the Lord is often like that, and that is why we need each other. There are times when we struggle with what seems like an impossible task, but when someone comes beside us, they help us to see something we didn't based on their own experience and vantage point.
And then suddenly the "impossible" becomes possible.
"For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. " Romans 12:4-5 (NIV)
