SUNDAY - 8TH AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE BRIDLED HORSE
READ James 3
James 3:3, KJV
"Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.'
Horses are animals of strength. No wonder, they're used in battles. Have you not wonder where it gets its strength to bear burdens, drag wagons or carriage from etc? God gave it to it. An average horse irrespective of breed has marvellous ability that can be unpacked for the benefit of mankind. A singular kick from a horse can kill a human! From speed to strength; to its bravery at war and to its ability of being malleable - as to yield to training or the will of its trainer, horses are just desirable.
Despite being these useful, an unbridled horse isn't useful to man. It is rather a full fledged danger. If it is not bridled, the usefulness can't be wholly enjoyed. What benefit will man take from an unbridled horse than to have a broken back? Have you ever seen a rider on the horse's back before without the horse being bridled first of all? No, they know the rule.
In capturing any horse, it must be bridled. Bits must be put in its mouth by which the rider would turn its whole body easily. Horses are always out of hand unbridled. They will always lose control, run hay wire or do their own will. Meanwhile, a bridled horse is brought home. Even if it's a narrow path you want to walk but which is on both sides surrounded by water, a bridled horse that has been tamed in this wise by the rider can be taken and pointed to pass through such narrow path without swerving to the left or right of the waterways.
Your installed capacity as a man can't be utilized or maximally utilized until you're bridled as a Christian also. Bridling suggests an act of putting under restriction or control and until a Christian loses his will for the exercise of his Master's, he may not know he could be used to accomplish more on this earth. Think of what we can use a bridled horse to perform and what we can get from an unbridled. That's an immediate allusion to what a man under a good leadership or structure can become. Don't think you can bring out the best in you. Horses themselves don't know their best but humans does and so harnesses it to bring out those best. You need a trainer. You need somebody to use you as to discover you.
When a horse is bridled according to that verse, what do we have them do? We have them obey us. It means without the bridling, there's no obedience. If you've seen a bridled horse being ridden before, you'll observe it still gallops and does as if it wants to fall off its rider. Yet, that's a fully bridled horse with reins in the hands of its rider for balance. Now, what if it were an unbridled one?
Obedience is first of all the consequence of bridling. If you're under Jesus' lordship, you must obey. Being born again brings you under His lordship. Only by then can your whole body be easily turned about. Your whole body is your whole affairs. Lack of submission is why many Christians can't be ruled over nor brought to their destinations. A bridled horse loses its will to the rider. That's where God wants you get to where what He ordains for you is what you do while leaving what you could have done. A horse is praised for its excellence because of this yet it isn't something she also wants to do naturally. That you don't like it don't mean you don't need it.
The horse has inner abilities but it is man that bridles the horse to help it accomplish these abilities. If you surrender like clay in the hands of a potter as well, what God and good leadership will use you do will be unto or even greater than what man trains or bridle a horse to do.
PRAYER: Lord, where am I out of control, put me under control. I submit to your Lordship and any godly physical structure you've given me.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ezra 7:1-8:20, 1 Corinthians 4:1-21, Psalm 30:1-12, Proverbs 20:28-30
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