I never really thought our motorcycles needed to be on a battery tender.
After all, this is North Carolina, we ride year round, never going more than a few weeks (at most) before they are cranked up and taken for a ride. The bikes are also garage kept. And, for the most part, they start right up.
Well, for the most part.
Occasionally they would act up by not starting right away. Yet even though we had battery tenders for the bikes, I never thought that was the problem so I never used them.
Then my wife's Royal Enfield just didn't start for her one morning and I finally thought, (men can be stubborn that way) perhaps we did need to use the tenders after all.
We haven't had one issue since. In fact, even after a nice long ride, we put the bikes on the tenders and can see they are not at full charge.
Must be a reason two of our bikes actually came with tenders when we bought them, tenders that up until now have gone completely unused!
It seems that even if your motorcycle doesn't sit, it's just good for the battery to be on a tender. I'm sure some of you who are reading this are saying... well duh!!!
But the same goes for the Word of God.
Spending time plugged into the Bible daily is a must for a healthy walk with the Lord, just like the battery tender is for a healthy motorcycle.
Sadly, there are more unread Bibles sitting around than unused battery tenders I'm sure!
As ridiculous as it seems for me to be putting up with the bikes starting poorly with the answer just a few feet away, it is even more crazy to think we can live in this world without being submerged daily in the Word of God.
"For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." Heb 4:12 (NIV)
