If you see what I see,

you will run the way I run.

Just doing a little free flowing thoughts.

The title is in relation to my 'training'. Most people grasp at the amount of time that I train. Seven hour bike ride or two hour runs, to a average person, seems a lot.

Life is always a matter of comparisons. This is because an average person will not go out to ride or run for that long. When you compare to the kids that are dying in the hospital from cancer, seven hour bike rides don't become painful. It becomes being gratitude to a healthy body.

This is equivalent to our spiritual life as well. The quote should say:

If you see what I see, you will serve the way I serve.

I hesitate on discussing about serving to many brothers and sisters. Not that I don't think serve is unimportant. It is for our spiritual growth. I am afraid that what I say become a directive or a legalistic reason to serve. Guilty emotion is not from the pure of heart.

It is interesting, when you discuss serving with those who have the heart, they understand you completely. And with others, they don't see it, they don't understand it. Even if they hear it.

My pastor and I were discussing about this today. This is where patience comes in. And lot of it.

How do one person see what the other does? When it comes to spiritual matters, it is all in the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Ultimately, we do what we do by what we see and believe. People either see it or not. They either believe or not.

There is nothing more encouraging than to 'see' others see what I see. And ultimately, it is not what I see. It is what God reveal to me.

What He has shown me is one wild ride. And if you have the same vision, let's ride together and see how 'crazy' this will go :)