As most bikers know, there is a big difference between operating a motorcycle and a car.
For one, you turn a motorcycle primarily by leaning. Even the turn of your head can cause the bike to automatically go in the direction you are looking. This causes what we call "object fixation" and can be hazardous to new riders. What happens is, if you stare at an object in the road, you often unintentionally ride the motorcycle right at it.
Reading Matthew 14:22-31 (NIV)
"Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. "It's a ghost," they said, and cried out in fear.
But Jesus immediately said to them: "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid."
"Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water."
"Come," he said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!"
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
Peter was doing the impossible, he was walking on the water with Jesus! Living a victorious life can also feel like doing the impossible. And if we take our eyes off Jesus, and look only at the situation we are in, we fix our eyes on that object and begin to sink.
Therefore, as the writer of Hebrews tells us, let's fix our eyes on Jesus.
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith." Heb 12:1-2 (NIV)
What better way than to be daily in his word?
