I think I first got the motorcycle in my blood when i was 5 years old. I remember getting a small cast metal mtr cycle in the mail one saturday after a morning of watching a meat cleaver carryin cat chase an innocent little mouse that had the military srtategy of Rambo! And i wonder whats wrong with me? I have very few memories of my childhood...because I believe that is Gods saftey system for those of us who have nothing but bad ones. but this one stands out...i was so happy.. and a Charms pop to go with it....I was lovin life my friend. Well years... later after a rough teen life...living out on my own by 16 with 2 jobs sleeping in my car in the Indiana cold,I joined the U.S.Infantry,Regular Army.I met my wife at Fort Carson in Colororado Springs....28 years ago....after the first few years we were called to go overseas. I purchased my first Bike and rode across Europe and away from my wife and child. On the brink of divorce after 11 years God painted me in a corner...untill he was the only thing left. As Christians we tend FORGET.....GODS GRACE AND OUR NEED........and where we were before he found us....WE TAKE SO MUCH FOR GRANTED ....so we become proffessional hearers.....not passionate doers, evaluaters of other Christians and their lives and not our own.Pslam 103 Bless the LORD AND FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS,WHO PARDONS ALL YOUR INIQUITIES,HEALS ALL YOUR DIEASES,WHO REDEEMS YOUR LIFE FROM THE PIT! I have a close friend he is like a brother although he calls me his dad, he fell into a pit once working for FPL. It caved in on him and almost killed him...as he screamed for help the co-workers just laughed..he got out ..a narrow escape..and left his boot and never went back. So it is my friend...God asks us to look into the mirror of his law ...not to condem..to transform...... as others look on and laugh or criticize our walk be encouraged and keep the perspective Christ wants us to have....Remember when..........you were in the pit...a.slave to sin ...The Best the devil can offer one of his children is the promise of hell......and Jesus reached out his mighty hand and pulled you out of the slime.....Pslam 41 The mirey clay.....we forget what wretched sinners we really are...and what we have been delivered from. I recently aquried a 85 IRON HEAD HARLEY DAVIDSON AND I REMEBER WHEN,,,,I used to ride and that owned and ruled my life as the saying goes RIDE TO LIVE,LIVE 2 RIDE...BUT i now live For CHRIST...ALONE.But just because you are on one of those terrible contraptions people look at you differently,even christians..just because we listen to Gods word so much and know it.......do we think that makes us better than others..well if your honest with yourself you would say....sometimes! God sees us as FORGIVEN OR NOT. uBDER THE BLOOD OR SEPERATED. And his loves CRUSHES ALL LEGALISTIC BONDS AND OUR LISTS OF DO'S AND DONT'S.Lord help us to love others more..if i could spend mor energy on that..i think my father would be more pleased than when i check off my list a temptation i avoided...James 1.22-25..its when i do what i have heard From God..is when i get the blessing. of GOD.and i do it more readily and passionatly when i remember where i came from. So the next time you start sizing up sombodey elses sin...or even your own.............Remember when.....