My son was about six years of age, and we were living in North Alabama. One day he was trotting around the house on a broomstick, pretending it was a horse. I looked down at him, and made a whimsical remark: “Steve, that sure is a skinny horse you’ve got there.” Without a pause, he replied, “Well, Dad, he don’t eat much!”
I never cease to marvel at the apparent neglect of Christians to fill their minds with nourishing information, resources, words, thoughts, etc. They, (I can’t say we) neglect scripture in favor of soap operas. All of us have been guilty of groveling in self-pity, and speaking negatives, rather than immersing ourselves in words that are reminiscent of Faith.
Scripture says: “As a man thinks in his heart so his he.” (Proverbs 23:7, KJV)
Beth Moore wrote a book called, Praying God’s Word. Jesus Himself, spoke God’s Word aloud, as he encountered Satan in the wilderness. Even He found it necessary to reaffirm Himself with the Inspired Word.
Too many Christians live beneath their spiritual means; (I didn’t say material means. That is a matter of God’s grace and design for our lives). We drift through life, content to wake, eat, work, and then sleep again, with hardly anything in between.
To reflect on the original illustration, we neglect our “Spiritual Horses.” We don’t feed them. And when tests come, we find ourselves lacking.
Feed that Horse!
By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "Unconventional Devotions" Copyright 2005
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