Today I was standing in a retail shop, waiting for a contractor to arrive. I observed an old bearded man treasure his earthly possession, his rusted bicycle. The play in front of me started to intrigue me.

I don’t know if it’s to see the man with the bicycle in the shop, “well it could not be that we did that all the time as teens brining our bikes in the shops”, or the way he pushed his bicycle. My attention where more and more absorb by the man’s actions. He pushed the bicycle closer to the tills, but the way he did this amused me, he had the bicycle by the saddle and handle bar he looks like a hen protecting it chicks, slowly he pushed the bike making sure it is out of the way, and no one walks in to it. He make it stand against the counter, then he take out a dirty old cloth out his trouser pocket, open it up and take out some money to pay for the few things he bought.

My eyes wondered back to the bicycle and the state it is in. The frame, rims and forks are rusted, the saddle padding shows that it knew better times, a brake cable is torn and a spoke broken. The brake levers where skew and lose. The man took his bicycle and leaves the shop.

I where startled by this and don’t know why, normally when something like this happened I turn my questions to the Lord, why did this bother me so much, out of nowhere this came to me, this is how your relationship with your partner is. HUH? Were my first reaction, where did that came from.

The Holy Spirit starts to explain to me that every body is the old man and every body is the bicycle, you are the old man and your partner is the bicycle, and vice versa in your partner’s case. Now I’m more confused. I earn a good salary, there is food and a roof over my head a new car in the parking, and a company car I’m not poor with a rusted bicycle!

The Holy Spirit again came to me, “that is how your love life is, you barely have the means to sustain your self, and your partner is like the rusted Bicycle. Life use us and break us, mostly it’s done by the choices we make. When the love banks run in a overdraft we trough the bicycle away because we can’t fix the breakages, there is nothing left in the bank for repairs”. My eyes filled with tears how true, how true.

Look what the Lord Promise us, we just need to come to Him, pay attention to verse 3 “I will give you my faithful love” if you received that you can give it away, we cant give away what we don’t have …….

Jes 55:1 “Come, all of you who are thirsty. Come and drink the water I offer to you. You who do not have any money, come. Buy and eat the grain I give you. Come and buy wine and milk. You will not have to pay anything for it.
Jes 55:2 Why spend money on what is not food? Why work for what does not satisfy you? Listen carefully to me. Then you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the richest food there is.
Jes 55:3 Listen and come to me. Pay attention to me. Then you will live. I will make a covenant with you that will last forever. I will give you my faithful love. I promised it to David.

If we really want to fix your rusted bicycle, we must fill up our account with Jesus Christ so that we can repair our trusted rusted bicycles.