Ride Your Own Bike (Even When You Fall) — Episode 4

A scraped knee, a smile, and the choice to keep riding.

You Can’t Ride Someone Else’s Bike

Picture a little kid on a bike for the first time.
Knees scraped. Tears in the eyes. Training wheels long gone.
Everyone is watching—Mom, Dad, big sister, the neighbor.

They all yell, “You can do it! Keep going!”
That helps… a little.

But here’s the secret nobody says out loud:

You only get back on the bike if YOU want to ride it.

Not because Mom will be proud.
Not because your future spouse might like it.
Not because your friends already ride without hands.

You have to love the ride itself.
When you love it, falling just becomes part of the story.

God Is Doing the Same Thing—Only Bigger

God walks up to your life like a Master Builder walks up to an old, leaky shop.
At first the fixes feel nice:
He patches the roof, unclogs the drains, paints the walls.
You think, “Cool, a little remodel. I like this.”

Then the sledgehammer comes out.

Walls come down. Foundations get ripped up. It hurts. A lot.
You yell, “What on earth are You doing?!”

He smiles and keeps swinging.
Because He is not fixing a mom-and-pop corner store.

He is turning you into a temple.
A family business that looks like His family business.
A living, breathing place where heaven meets earth and lifts people up.

C.S. Lewis said it best:

“He is going to make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature…
The process will be long and in parts very painful.
But that is what we are in for. Nothing less.”

He’s not repairing a shop—He’s building a temple.

Your Business Is Practice for Becoming Like Him

The scriptures call us “agents on the Lord’s errand.”
That means whatever you do according to His will becomes His business.

Your side hustle? His business.
Your 9-to-5 that’s turning into something more? His business.
Your crazy dream nobody gets? His business—if you keep it pointed at Him.

Being an entrepreneur is the best school on earth for learning how God works:

• You create something from organizing other things.
• You serve real people.
• You fall flat on your face… and get up again.

Sound familiar?

Your work becomes His work when your heart is turned upward.

Never Say “I Have Enough”

Your body never says, “I’m done eating forever.”
Your spirit shouldn’t either.

Feast every single day—OMAD style—on the word of God.
One big, deep, delicious meal that lasts all day.

Keep hungering.
Keep thirsting.
He promised: you will be filled.

One daily feast. Endless filling.

So Keep Riding

Fall down seven times, get up eight.
People may cheer or they may laugh—doesn’t matter.
You’re not riding for them.

You’re riding because your heart is on fire to be like Abba.
You’re riding because you want everything He has promised.
You’re riding because someone else needs lifted—
and you can’t lift them from the ground.

When your eye is single to His glory,
He will add floors, towers, courtyards you never dreamed of.

Piece by piece.
Here a little, there a little.
Small talents faithfully used become great things.

So dust off your knees.
Grab the handlebars.
Pedal.

Be lifted…
so you can go lift others.

You’ve got this.
And more importantly—He’s got you.

Ride your path. Keep building your business—single to His glory. Rise from low to lifted to lift others.