Caged

A luxury car dealership.  An elated driver sits behind the steering wheel of a brand new sportscar.  He had dreamed of this moment...it was the car he always wanted.  He imagined speeding down the freeway, pushing the threshold of the car's speedometer.  The car salesman is happily waving goodbye to him as the driver peels out of the dealership.  "Sucka, " the driver muses, "he only wishes for a car like this."  The driver gets on the 10 freeway, accelerating to 60 miles per hour in less than 6 seconds.  He speeds down the freeway for about two miles.  Then, it happens, the inevitable...LA rush hour traffic.  The driver squeals to a stop.  "Really?!?" the driver bellows.  He can't move an inch.  The traffic is at an absolute standstill.  The driver sits...waits, growing irritable alongside his fellow cagers.  He tries to find something good to listen to on his new satellite radio.  He flips through the new-car manual, opens up every compartment in his prized car.  Try as he might, he can't escape the clutches of his surroundings.  He peers his head out the window to see how far this LA gridlock goes.  Miles upon miles of stopped cars...he is caged in. 

Team aHbe Racer glides by on their motorcycles, splitting lanes.  They pass the brand new sports car.  The driver notices they aren't going too fast, but at least they're moving.  The moto riders are focused, each one following closely behind the other, weaving between the idle cars on the freeway.  Our scene fast fowards fifteen mintues.  The moto riders are now traveling at 80 miles per hour, far past the traffic, headed towards Hollywood.  Where is our cager?  Still inching along the same freeway, at about 5 miles per hour, in his brand new sportscar...

A cage is the moto-term given to a car because it is enclosed, separated, isolated.  Sin entices with grand dreams, the fast life, no one to follow.  But before you know it, you're stuck on the "freeway" headed nowhere.  Being a moto rider is dangerous: you are exposed to the elements, you can get injured, you may even die.  Such are the same costs of following Christ.  He says, "Count the cost...", but it is so worth the risk because, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."  Follow Him on His freeway while the wheels are spinning...