OK, so this is so cool!  My friend Cam is over at my house about a week ago.  We’re riding dirt bikes on my motocross track and as usual, I’m gettin’ spanked.  Later while sitting by the pool and relaxing, I start complaining about my old bike and how I wish I could afford one of the new bikes that the local motorcycle shop is selling at some incredible discounts. As my friend begins to leave, he offers to take my bike home with him and rework my suspension some (one of his specialties).  So we load it up on his trailer and off he goes. 

A week later, I come home to find my bike sitting next to my garage.  At least I think it’s my bike.  It is freshly washed, has new graphics and custom number plates on it (sporting ‘Knight Vision Ministries’ above my race number).  The clutch, brake and shift levers are all new, the carburetor has been adjusted, the silencer repacked, brakes bled and new pads added, and the suspension completely re-dun!  It literally looks, runs and rides like a new bike!

And I am humbled and honored, and almost a bit giddy.  I called Cam and told him that I felt like a child on Christmas morning.

This radio station in our city is promoting as opportunity to download a note that can then be used at your favorite fast food drive through in which you anonymously pay for the meal of the person behind you, leaving this note that just says that your debt has been taken care of.  How cool is that?

There is just something so much more real, so much more Jesus, about these acts of undeserved kindness (grace the bible would call it) than much of what we have seen as the church trying to do to ‘save’ the world.  I recently heard Rob Bell comment that ‘if you are showing love to someone with an agenda attached (ie: to get them saved), than you really need to ask if it really is love?’

Jesus told us that we were to love our neighbors as ourselves.  Not sure I know exactly how to do that, but I do know how it feels … like having a friend renew your old motorcycle.

Thanks Cam.

To the King,

David