Going Nowhere...

I was working out the other day on a treadmill at our gym we go to. I love to run and going to this gym has been wonderful since I haven't been able to run or be very active like I like to do since Fall.
Well, I never really used a treadmill very often...at least not for a couple years.

I always loved my time this Spring, Summer, & Fall, when I was able to run outside and just enjoy the weather and just ponder on life and what God was showing and teaching me. I feel like when I am in the gym, for some reason the thoughts just don't flow. It's been very frustrating to me. Then I began to think...
Why am I go nowhere with this? Why am I not feeling at peace when I run, like I did when I am outside running?
Hahaha...then I realized...well, because I am literally going NOWHERE. Maybe it is the treadmill, in the fact that I am in one spot the entire time...and I don't feel like I'm making any progress? Or maybe it's that I am actually MORE distracted by the treadmill, then when I have ran outside? How does that work?

Well anyways...
But I realized...there have been times in my life where you are running full pace...and yet, you are not moving. We put so much effort and so much energy into life and into everyday activities and people and things...that we go NOWHERE with what is truly the most important things in our lives...our relationship with Jesus Christ.
God wants it the other way around. He wants us to run full pace towards Him, with everything in our lives...with finances, with relationships, with jobs, with hurts, with joys, with EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING!
So instead of going nowhere with our relationship with God, we should be going somewhere!


On the other hand...
could this mean that God also wants us to sit still and listen? See, this is where I'm pondering. Maybe God is ALSO showing me that when I'm on a treadmill that I am to just take in the moment that I have...and just rest (well not really rest when you are running, but you get my point) on God and just stay put with Him. ???

Interesting two fold, huh?

Lord Jesus, I just thank you so much for what you have shown me and that you are making more and more real to me that I am to drive towards you and only you, not material things. I ask that you help me focus on this and dwell on this. Show me areas in my life that I run to more than you. Make me fall on my knees to realize where I need to be and where I need to focus less on and focus more on you!