A couple of weeks ago I was driving down the road and I thought I saw a motorcycle that had a training wheel on it. I saw it at the last moment and turned to look after I passed him to get another look, but I couldn’t see anything more. I pondered that as I kept driving to my destination. It reminded me of when my wife’s niece was in town and came to have dinner with us along with her 2 boys. After dinner they were boys and wanted to get out and run and ride their bikes, not sit at the table with Mom and talk. So I took them out side to ride their bikes. It was a duty I’ll do anytime they come. I really enjoy those boys. The oldest one was proud to show me how good of a bike rider since I saw him last year. Last year you see he had training wheels just like his little brother. This year he’s a man riding on 2 wheels, going fast and jumping off the curb when his Mom wasn’t looking. He made sure I know he was a 2 wheeler MAN.
A week or two later I was out riding my bike, it was the next day after a long hard ride and my legs were tired and sore. I just wanted to get out and get my legs moving, so I wasn’t pushing it. I hade taken my MP3 with me to listen to the radio while I rode. There was this guy whose complete career had he had been the piano tuner for Steinway pianos. He just wasn’t just any tuner, he was the tuner for the concert maestros and did all the concerts in Carnegie Hall and places like that. He said something that really struck me and made me think. He said “like the tuning fork is to the piano, so is God to us” he went on to say that the tuning fork has the note that the tuner uses to bring the piano back into tune, you can’t tune a piano without a tuning fork. And we can’t live our lives without God being in our lives.
What that humble man had said rattled around in my head for a couple of days. When we first ask God into our lives and ask him to forgive our sins we look to God for everything and we think we can’t live without his input in our life. After we’ve gone along for awhile we get this false sense of self confidence and think “I can do this I don’t need to bother God with this small thing” that starts the process of making more decisions on our own and after a time we forget to ask God first Then one day we’re in a situation, and we may even say out loud “How did I get into this situation”?
Yea we forgot to involve God in a little decision and decided to do what we thought was right. Walking with God and having his input, not domination in our lives worked so well we quit doing it.
You know what God is waiting right beside us waiting for us to ask his help. Just ask him.
