People are funny. Runners are often funnier. And they tend to have more idiosyncrasies. There's a great Adidas add that reads "Runners - yeah, we're different"...and we're also pretty predictable. I'm running early this past Monday morning in San Diego doing a few repeats of a three mile loop pretty much in the dark (save for a few street lights) and I realize there's this guy a few hundred yards ahead of me and I'm gaining on him. He doesn't notice me until I'm within ten yards or so.....and then, predictably, he picks up his pace. Like warp speed. He begins to pull away and I try to stay with him to no avail. He stays ahead of me the rest of the way, and I can see him looking back every now and then to make sure he's still a safe distance ahead. I'm OK with it because I was pretty much running as fast as I could and I still couldn't hang. But it caused me to wonder why he waited until I was ready to overtake him before he started running to his potential. Maybe it just took knowing someone else was there, behind him, gaining on him, pushing him.
So often we live as if nobody is watching us. How different would we act, how much harder would we work, how much more effort would we put in to being better friends, better partners, better parents, better examples of Christ, if we knew someone was there watching us, pushing us be and to give our very best? The truth is that He is. We have a Lord and Savior who cares so much about us that He is with us 24/7, even when we think nobody else is looking. Growing up my mother would remind me that I needed to live as if God was sitting right beside me. Every thought, every action, every decision. When we stop to consider that He is, we tend to take better actions, make better decisions, and live better lives. Our God is not a sometimes God. He promised to be an all times God, even when we don't think we need Him or we really don't want Him watching. BELIEVE
"....I am with you always, even to the very end of time" - Matthew 28:20
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