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Knowing What The Saddle Is For
We’re told that it is a very frightening experience for a wild horse to feel a saddle on his back for the first time. Some horses react with anger. They rear back and kick and struggle to get away. Their nostrils flare, their eyeballs roll back, and panic takes over. But other horses are so afraid that they can’t move. They just stand in one spot as though frozen, shaking and trembling like a leaf on a tree.
Many Christians are just like that. Take a good look at yourself. When something unpleasant or threatening happens, do you react with anger, lashing out at other people, even at God? Perhaps something has occurred which you cannot control or change, and you’re so angry about it that you are determined someone is going to pay for your discomfort. You say, “God, You did this to me!” or you ask, “God, why did You let this happen?” Or do you react with such fear that you are essentially immobilized? You’re afraid to step one way or the other, thinking that if you do anything you’ll make a fatal mistake.
The mature Christian, the one who is constantly growing in Christ, can be compared to a horse which has learned to trust his trainer, and knows what the saddle is for. He knows that when the saddle of trouble and difficulty is suddenly thrust upon him, it is there for a purpose. That purpose may be known only to our Heavenly Father, but as long as He knows it, the mature Christian doesn’t kick and rebel.
--Rocky Henriques, www.timothyreport.com
