Often I want to lead someone to the Lord, but I know that isn't what they want. Nope, what they want is something else entirely different and not what I would choose for them at all. But I know when I want something, whether it is good for me or not, I want it. Even the name of this blog which I had a great story about, but the title of Leading Horses To Water was already taken, so my blog has a different name. Shucks anyway.
So my story was about what happens when we want one thing, in this case the animal we are leading to drink water, and what the said animal wants. They may be different, the things you both want, and that would mean you are wasting their time as well as your own. If you happened to have a very smart and therefore probably a bit ornery horse you might have them splash the water around with a nose/muzzle or foot. And you really don't want your horse to have his/he feet in the stock tank any more than you want to be wet. You've not only wasted time and energy, but now you are wet. Sigh! And it isn't the cleanest of crystal clear water you are wet with either.
Very often you hear the question that is related to that analogy when tragedy strikes. In our city we have had many such tragedies it seems to me. The theatre shootings in Aurora and the recently the little girl who lost her life at the hand of a predator. And the question you often hear is, "how can I believe in a loving God when (put the name to the tragedy here) happens?" In reading recently, I was struck by another question we might ask instead. And that question is, "How can an omnipresent, omniscient, creative God take the time to be concerned about me so much He sent his son to redeem me and laid my sin on His only son?"
It is something to think about don't you think?
So my story was about what happens when we want one thing, in this case the animal we are leading to drink water, and what the said animal wants. They may be different, the things you both want, and that would mean you are wasting their time as well as your own. If you happened to have a very smart and therefore probably a bit ornery horse you might have them splash the water around with a nose/muzzle or foot. And you really don't want your horse to have his/he feet in the stock tank any more than you want to be wet. You've not only wasted time and energy, but now you are wet. Sigh! And it isn't the cleanest of crystal clear water you are wet with either.
Very often you hear the question that is related to that analogy when tragedy strikes. In our city we have had many such tragedies it seems to me. The theatre shootings in Aurora and the recently the little girl who lost her life at the hand of a predator. And the question you often hear is, "how can I believe in a loving God when (put the name to the tragedy here) happens?" In reading recently, I was struck by another question we might ask instead. And that question is, "How can an omnipresent, omniscient, creative God take the time to be concerned about me so much He sent his son to redeem me and laid my sin on His only son?"
It is something to think about don't you think?
