A few nights ago, my wife and I rode our motorcycles to our midweek service, ReFuel.
On the way there, highway 42 can be loaded down with traffic in some places at the time we roll through. You have to be a little more on your toes, I watched a couple of pick-up trucks speed ahead of us as the lanes changed from two to one. Guess they didn't want to be behind a couple of bikes.
Saw them at the next light... not like they got there any sooner!
That ride can be OK, but I wouldn't call it stress-free.
But what I enjoy the most about riding to Refuel, is riding home again. After some good conversation and prayer time with my brothers (and sisters) at Freedom, it's so refreshing to step out into that cool air and ride home on clearer roads. That same road is now clear of most traffic. The ride home is refreshing, uncluttered, and pure joy. I often wish it could go on longer than the short 20 miles it is.
Life can be like that sometimes. Some days can be cluttered with cares and worries. We are getting by, but are not refreshed. Like that first ride we can go from point A to point B, but with a lot of stress along the way.
Jesus said in Matthew 13, "Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:... The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown." Matthew 13:18-23 (NIV)
What is weighing you down today? What is preventing your life from being fruitful?
