When I was younger, I never understood the expression, horsing around. Although, my parents and junior high teachers often used this saying, I didn’t fathom what it meant. However, since March I have been working part time at a horse farm, which has opened my eyes to the true meaning of horsing around.
Like a shepherd tending their sheep, I interact with horses daily as a caretaker / landscaper at Middletown Veterinarian Hospital. Just as middle school students goof off as a teacher turns their head, horses do the strangest things when no one is looking. Horses bite one another, constantly destroy fence post by cribbing and I caught one the other day successfully open a gate to a pasture by using their butt to loosen the lock.
Solomon, who was an avid lover of horses, had one of the largest collections of horses on record. Proverbs 26:3 sheds light on the reality Solomon discovered in his interactions with his own horses. According to verse 3, horses needed the prompting of a whip to keep them in line. Just like horses, sometimes human beings need a kick in the rear to bring them back on track. As the wide road which leads to destruction, Matthew 7:13-14, continues to attract lost souls, Christians need to stop horsing around before forget where the narrow path lies.
by Jay Mankus
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Thank you Jay for all your inspiring devotions. I grew up with horses as a kid and being thrown off more than once, as Christians we must remember that when life throws us off, we must get back on and ride to tell the message of the Gospel.
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