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A
round pen is an amazing thing. Really. Within the confines of its
perimeter, the destinies of horses are shaped! An over statement?
Yeah, maybe just a little, but its called "poetic license." (I think
that means if you tell a lie using lots of flowery words, you can
get away with it.) Now, where was I? Oh yeah, ever notice how things
change when you put a horse and a man in a round pen together? It's
a clash of wills. You can put a bronc of a horse in a round pen
and he'll be a little uneasy, but no big deal. Put a man in there
with that bronc and you've got instant emotions! Even though the
man was alive before that horse was ever born, the horse never gave
the man much thought... until now. Now, within the confines of this
situation, the horse is forced to consider the man and his relationship
to him.
If he's a sure enough
bronc, his first reaction will be to run. He'll circle the round
pen with his nose to the outside and his rear to the inside, doing
his best to find a way out of this "trap" while not choosing to
acknowledge the existence of the man standing in the middle of
the pen. But he can only run for so long. He doesn't even know
it yet, but the man has already begun to direct his movements,
turning him at will. One main thing that the man wants the horse
to do is to stop running from him and face him. Once the horse
does that, he gets to rest. Ahhh, what a wonderful thing rest
is! Next thing the horse will find is that the man is not his
enemy; he's his friend. And the man isn't trying to take anything
away from the horse either... except his rebellion. On the contrary,
that horse will never experience his destiny - what he was really
made for - unless he submits to the will of the man, because the
horse's destiny is locked up in the mind of the man. Only by trusting
in and submitting to the man can the Once the horse stops
running and turns to face the man, he begins to realize that while
he keeps his focus on the man as master, he gets to rest. If he
loses focus and turns toward other things, he has to run and sweat
some more. It doesn't take a horse long at all to find out that
the closer he stays to the man, the more rest he experiences Why can't we be this
smart? Even though God has existed long before we were ever born,
we never gave Him much thought until we find ourselves in a "round
pen" situation. Now we are forced to choose whether or not we
will have a relationship with this One Who stands in the middle
of our existence. Given enough running in circles and turning
our butts to Him, we sometimes can begin to get a clue... "I could
die doing this!" Duh!!! Stop and face up! Quit running from the
Master of your destiny! Turn towards Him, not away from Him, and
you'll have peace! Lose your focus and go off after other things
and you'll run some more. Turn again to face Him and you'll again
find rest. The closer we can stay tuned into Him, the more we
will experience rest, peace, and the pathway to whatever it is
we were born for! |
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