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Jul 04 2007
Horse Theology: The Evolution of a Pharisee PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mike Brown   
Wednesday, 04 July 2007
When I was growing up we lived in a small rural area of North Georgia. Being a Southern American and living in the country my father wanted to be a farmer. This included owning a small Shetland pony. The pony's name was Little Bit. We didn't have a lot of land. As a matter of fact we rented the small house that we lived in. Therefore the pony's lot in life was to be tied to a tree out back of the house. One morning my sister went out to feed Little Bit only to find him bound to the tree by the rope. He had somehow gotten tangled in the rope to the point that not only could he not free himself but he had become wrapped so tightly in the rope that it blinded him in one eye and rubbed a whole in his front leg to the bone. My father went out and cut him loose and doctored him up. Although blind and wounded he survived. A few years later, in another rented house with less room, Little Bit ended up tied to the house. My dad knew that he wouldn't get tangled around the house. He didn't know that the house would burn down. Luckily someone came by and cut Little Bit's rope. He ran away from the burning house only to be found later pretty much unharmed. Again we moved to a house that had a little more land and for the first time Little Bit was put into a fence. The problem was that it was a small fence about 40 x 40 feet and it was electric. Little Bit lived in this small lot only to be continuously shocked by getting too close to the fence. After a couple of years we sold Little Bit. I remember clearly the day that the man who bought him came to get him. We took the fence completely down but we couldn't get the pony across the line where the fence had been. We pushed and pulled but Little Bit wouldn't budge. After great effort by about four grown men he was finally loaded onto the truck and I never saw him again.

Many years later, about 30, I was sitting in church when God told me that I was exactly like Little Bit. Now I know it was God because I hadn't even thought of the horse since I was a child.  You see I was tied up to the legalist mindset and it blinded me and wounded me to the freedom that was rightfully mine. God came by and cut me loose. Then I was bound to the house, the church-house, and I was almost burned to the point that I wanted to quit it all. Again God came by and set me free. I remained in a fence of religion but God has taken down the fence. I am at this point being drug across the line. I'm afraid to believe that I am free because of the shock of it.

Keep Pulling God, Not my will but Thine

Mike
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