Bike Riding - For Jesus?

Did you hear of the small male child acquisition to sit his motorcycle in a suburb? His ma felt it was safe since a nice, smooth pavement went all around the block. The male child couldn't acquire the hang of it for a long time. But finally he establish both his balance and his daring and swept out of sight around the corner. A minute later, he came into sight from the other end of the block, and to the cheers of his mother, began a new game: he held his custody in the air and guidance by balance, yelled, "Look Mom! No hands!" and again he swept out of sight around the corner.

When he appeared again, he had his custody in the air and his feet sticking up away from the motorcycle and swiftly coasted by, yelling, "Look Mom! No feet!" The last clip he coasted into sight, he had custody up, feet out and yelled, "Look Mom! No teeth!"

I learned to sit a motorcycle and it wasn't easy. Can you think what was the top deterrent to my acquisition to ride? My brain.

A few old age ago person in a grouping tried to pay me a compliment and said that my encephalon was "overdeveloped". Everyone laughed (and some agreed more heartedly than necessary) but she caught her error and changed it to what she'd really intended to say. But it's true up that my "brain" is overdeveloped -- it seeks to "do" things it can't and isn't supposed to do.

Like learning to sit a bike.

My greatest job in learning to sit a motorcycle was that I kept trying to "figure it out" with my mind. The truth is, to win in riding a bike, what have to "learn" isn't the "brain" but the body. It's a organic structure thing. Technically, "balance" is produced in the labyrinthand cochlea of your interior ear - not your brain. And the procedures required to maintain balance on a motorcycle or a balance radio beam are not rational or logical, but physical and intuitive. To equilibrate successfully, you kind of have got to "forget thinking" and instead, "let yourself go" into a physical sense of balance.

An encyclopaedia states us that "balance" is produced from sense variety meat located in the ears, eyes, joints, skin and muscles -- all workings in coordination together. Notice -- "rational" or "logical" thought isn't portion of the sense of balance.

You could even do a regulation out of it and say, "You cannot understand 'balancing' with your rational, logical mind, because 'balance' is 'understood' by your natural body."

Now - let's "lift up our eyes" [John 4.35] and expression beyond the mere natural into the supernatural.

Does it do sense to you that you can't larn to equilibrate a motorcycle with your "intellect" because your "intellect" doesn't "sense balance"? Then it should do sense to you that you can't larn to dwell in the Spirit with your "intellect" -- because your "intellect" doesn't "sense" things of the Spirit.

Someone might say, "Hold it! I can love Supreme Being with my mind!" And I'd say, "Maybe." Person else might protest, "But Jesus Of Nazareth told us to love Supreme Being with our heart, our mind and our soul!" Which is true. We aresupposed to love Supreme Being with our full beingness -- but we cannot sense or understand Negro spiritual things with our natural mind. Only in our spirit-beings.

Here's what the Book states about Negro spiritual sensitiveness in 1 Corinthians 2.14: "The natural adult male is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they look foolish to him, and he is not able to have got cognition of them, because such as cognition come ups only through the Spirit." [BBE]

Have you heard about the cat who took a college course of study in riding a bike? To acquire his certificate in "Bike Riding", he had to finish over 36 academic hours, base on balls a concluding examination both written and oral, and present a 300 page research paper reviewed and accepted by a board of 12 professors.

Of course, he never actually got on a bike.

But he could speak your leg off for hours about how to be a Motorcycle Rider.

You don't larn to sit a motorcycle with your intellect but your body. And according to the Bible, you don'tunderstand the things of the Spirit with your intellect but your spirit.

Is your spirit alive? Bash you dwell by your spirit or by your head?

Did you travel a Christian through your spirit or through your head? If you're alive in your spirit, is the day-to-day life you're living now just like Jesus' Life?

Or did you acquire your grade in Christian Religion through your intellect?

If you did, maybe you better go happen a motorcycle somewhere and seek actually riding it.