Do You Feel Stuck?

Last Thursday I went downstairs to workout. Lucretia and I have a treadmill down there and I wanted to really push myself with an interval routine that I’ve developed…so, I strapped on my I-pod, got two towels and prepared to sweat like crazy.

About 30 minutes into my workout the treadmill had a slight malfunction…I was running at a fairly decent pace and doing incline intervals…and after running a minutes at a 5.5% incline I hit the button to decline the treadmill back to a 0% incline.

The button didn’t respond…seriously. I hit it again–nothing. I was stuck at a hard pace on a 5.5% grade and literally began freaking out…I literally had this mental image of me dying on the treadmill because no one would have ever found me down there until it was too late.

Then a thought popped into my head, “Hey stupid…just step off the treadmill.”

I know it sounds simple–but when you are caught up in the moment you are literally unable to think rationally. Which is the same with some of you who may be reading today…

You feel stuck in life...you feel like you are on a treadmill that is going at break-neck speed…and you feel like that you can’t get off of the stupid thing. You feel slammed…and for many of you–you are.

So how do you cope with that? Glad you asked…for the next four weeks here at NewSpring Church we will be dealing with people who feel stuck in life and will tackle some tough questions that you have about yourself and Jesus. I can’t wait!

By the way…after stepping off of the treadmill and reseting it…it worked perfectly. In this series we are literally going to see what Scripture says about resetting our lives. God didn’t create us to endure life but rather to enjoy it…come hang out with us for the next four weeks as we discover how to see John 10:10 come to life!

For most of those reading this…YOU WERE CREATED FOR SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW…AND YOU KNOW IT!!! I can’t wait to talk about this…I seriously believe that God is going to use this series to seriously alter the course of people’s lives. YEAH!!!