Inconvenience

My internet went down this morning. Gasp! I know right? It's SUCH an inconvenience when my internet goes down because we depend on it so much. We don't really have cable TV, so all of my news and weather has to come through the internet.

As most everyone knows, also, the only way I continue to work out is to watch some sort of television while I do it. It's the only way I can keep my mind occupied from the fact that I'm sweating into oblivion.

But this morning...I didn't have internet...therefore, I didn't have any television to watch. Sigh! What to do? I had already run 1.5 miles on the treadmill at an incline, mind you, and I already had a pretty good sweat going. Now it was time for my spin bike, and I had nothing to watch! I hastily dug through our DVD drawers and found a Beth Coppedge sermon series from 2006 that I had yet to watch. I knew her preaching would keep me occupied because she is so incredibly deep. She's the kind of preacher you have to focus on every word so you catch the meaning of the sermon.

I popped it in, and she was preaching on Isaiah! What luck! She was preaching on something that would require my full attention, and I would somehow get through my 30 minutes of self-torment.

Then something happened that I didn't expect. The Holy Spirit came. He came right beside me on the right side of my bike to be exact, and He spoke words of joy and freedom and commission in my life. He gave ma promise that He's not finished with me yet. These were words that I feared I would never hear again. Revival happened this morning on the spin bike. My life has been changed. My heart is once again filled with a renewed calling and hope that He can use me...and that He will use me.

But you know what's so amazing? When I finished that 30-minute bike ride...the internet was back on.

Many times I've experienced stints where God got me alone and still so that He could speak, but I never ceased to be amazed at how he does it...and how long it takes for me to realize it. Thanks be to our God that He continues to speak...even to mid-30's sweaty women grumbling in the morning!