BULL IN THE CHICKEN HOUSE

Where’s the camera when you need one?  I heard the chickens going ape-snerd and ran out to see what was the matter.  The longhorn bull was inside the chicken house, calmly eating hay out of the nests and licking up the laying pellets out of the hanging feeder, while the chickens were bouncing off the walls.  It was a Kodak moment.  While crazed chickens where flying over his back, he quietly turned his head sideways so he could fit his horns through the door and come back out.  I am sure that egg production will be down for a day or so. 

 

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How did it happen?  Well, a small gate was left open----that is all it took to give me a laugh and the chickens something to cackle about for a few hours.   Did you know that not every open door is to be walked through?  I’ve heard people say, “I knew it must be God because it just opened up for me”!  Heck, I’ve said those words myself!  Some of them “open doors” that I walked through, thinking they were “God” left a memory that isn’t near as funny to me as the bull in the chicken house----although come to think of it-----it did give folks something to cackle about for awhile. 

 

God wants us to be led by His Spirit, that still, quiet sounding voice down on the inside of us that we can brush off as “nothing” if we don’t watch it, NOT some “open door”.  Some open doors are God!  But the point is----we are not to be led by them.  I have walked through some of those open doors before, and been just as out of my element and in the wrong place as that bull was in the chicken house.  Problem was----it took me a lot longer to get back out!  Although I gotta say, I have learned some valuable lessons because of it.  One of which is:  “Even though a bull eats all the laying pellets-----he still won’t lay eggs”.