Cycling with Daddy :)

Cycling with Daddy :)

When you first start out cycling, you ride with training wheels. It stops you from falling, you enjoy the fun of cycling without any scrapes or falls. The training wheels keeps you protected and secure.

But one day, Daddy says it's time to take off those wheels and learn to cycle on your own. So he takes the wheels off and you watch with a mixture of excitement and doubt. Inside you're wondering,what if I fall, what if i can't do it. 

Daddy turns to you and says, let's try this out now. You hesitate and you wonder if Daddy would let the training wheels be back on for just a little while more. He smiles and says,

"Don't worry, I'm here. Daddy's here, sweetheart."

So after much coaxing you warily board the bicycle and feel a sense of tension build up. There is a fear of the unknown but if Daddy is Daddy, he knows what he's doing. So you grip the handlebars tighter than before and gulp down the fear and say ok Daddy, I'm ready.

Daddy pushes the bicycle and tells you to pedal. Your bike feels steady and gains momentum as you glide and you pedal. Your fear begins to melt slightly because Daddy's hands are holding you and when the bike wobbles, he's quick to put it back straight when you call out for help.

Then the moment comes, Daddy says he's going to let go and tells you that no matter what keep pedalling. You look at him and feel like crying because once again you don't know if you can do it. Daddy smiles and says its ok honey, Daddy's here, try your best and remember to pedal hard. You can do it.

So you start pedalling harder and Daddy counts 1, 2, 3... and you're on your own. At first the momentum keeps you upright but since its your first time going solo on the bike, it gradually starts to lose speed and you begin to wobble. Your legs suddenly buckle and you panic. Crash! You're on the ground crying because you skinned your knee.

Daddy runs to pick you up and hugs you. He lets you cry your heart out and sob. When you quiet down, he raises your head and wipes the tears from your face and kisses that bruised spot on your knee. He tells you how brave you were to keep pedalling and that he's so proud of you.

But Daddy, I fell. I couldn't cycle well enough...

Daddy hugs you and tells you that the falling was part of learning. He asks you whether you knew why you fell. You tell him because you didn't pedal consistently and the handle bars were going crooked. Daddy asks if you know what to do better the next time and you say maybe. So Daddy says good and asks if you wanted to try again to get better at it.

After much thinking, you realise that as long as Daddy was going to be there, it didn't matter how many times you fell. Daddy was going to be there to help and make it all right.

So you get on the bicycle again and try. You fell again, but this time, you weren't that afraid of falling.In fact, you knew what you needed to avoid doing the next time. After a few rounds of falling and coaching from Daddy, you managed to cycle around the block without falling!

Daddy was so proud of his sweetheart :)

And from then on, you not only knew how to cycle; you also cycled TOGETHER with Daddy around the neighbourhood, and everyone knew just how good you were at cycling.

All thanks to Daddy

And I realise that being a child of God and learning to display the kingdom of God is the same. We receive salvation and begin our walk with feeling so secure, loved and protected. We take our baby steps of faith and learn about God. One day, we realise we're not just children who live on just milk, God begins to direct our paths and teach us to be grown up stewards of His kingdom.

Will we meet doubts? Yes.

Will we fear? Yes.

Will we fall and hurt ourselves? Yes.

But our God is first a God of love and He comforts, encourages and guides us patiently. He's like the father  who holds the handlebars and reassures you when you cry out to him for help. He's the father who will pick you up and hold you when you fall and hurt yourself. He never leaves you in a pitiful state, but comes straight to the rescue when you call out to him.

God is also a God of hope. He never gives up on you and keeps reminding you to try again and get better at everything you set your heart on - jobs, ministry, relationship, finances, emotional issues... EVERYTHING! He doesn't despise you for your weaknesses, He leads you by His love, not condemnation.

And when you succeed, He tells you just  how proud He is of you :)

Moreover, you get to partner with God as you allow Him access to more and more of your life.

So, have you gone cycling with Daddy lately?

This week marks the fourth week of being in my new job. Wow, a month really passes by in a blink of an eye! Where did it go?

I have so many things to give thanks to God - people, opportunities, blessings - are among the many things that I've experienced so far.

It's been almost a month of adjusting to a fixed schedule. Long gone are the days where I can afford to stay up until 2 or 3 am on an almost daily basis. Now, almost like clockwork my internal battery gets snuffed out at midnight and I find myself nodding off quite automatically and I find myself dragging a tired out body to sleepydom until the next morning.

Thankfully I've gotten used to the whole sleep early and wake up early routine. The days are filled with reading up articles pertaining to my field of work, formulating classroom lessons, planning trips, talking, writing and etc. I embrace my everyday with enthusiasm because of the prospect and potential I can see that it will bring one day. Though we started out small, I am not deterred by the numbers. I am much more concerned with quality and achieving higher goals than just mere figures of earning.

On a personal side, God has just been totally awesome. I always wished I could feel or experience the "heartbeat" of God and these past few weeks, I've caught more than one glimpse of what it means to see Him as Love. He isn't just loving, but God is the definition of Love. Along the days of this month, through many circumstances and people, I have seen the Maker's fingerprints on each and every one of them. 

People equate living a supernatural lifestyle as all the dramatic happenings - resurrection, deliverance, miracles, healings - but it can also be moments of being totally aware of His presence around you. It has been more than once whereby I can consciously feel Him lay His hands reassuringly on my shoulders. That weight on my shoulders, the sudden engulfing of warmth and light all around me all point to the fact that God is indeed very real.

God has been confirming things that I have kept secret in my heart. Sometimes, the littlemost questions that I have had for sometime were answered without me asking them. Some much needed confirmations have come my way as well. The key was to ask and keep on asking, to continue to strike out in faith eventhough He did not speak yet for certain matters.

Right now, God is unfolding yet another different season in my life. I really don't know what to make of it, but I am quite assured that whatever it is, He knows best. That  He has my best interests in mind and He won't lead me astray. This new season is quite important to me and has always been something I barely entertain in my life, but truthfully I knew one day I would have to face it and here it is.

Therefore, I will continue to trust Him in all these things. Because I know my future is in His hands. And the hand that leads me is a reassuring one :)

Lord, I offer my life once again to You.

Lead, guide and walk with me Jesus :D