Stop Horsing Around!

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Today we learned about hearing God's voice, the still small voice. It's much like training a horse really. Some of you know that I had the privelge of riding a horse named Joannie while I was in Sioux Falls. I loved training her and teaching her to listen to me, because when I trained her to do the task of running barrels, we had more fun together because we did it with ease. She was able to sprint hard like she liked, and I was able to fly around corners in a relaxed state with her knowing I was in control to stop at anytime. (Trust me...very important in an arena!)

But when you start training a horse, you need to teach it that you as a rider are in control of their every move. When you want a horse to go left and he goes right...you take control of the horse and make him go in circles (yep, literal circles). Circle so much that you almost get dizzy. You do this every time a horse does something you don't want it to do. It wears the horse out, and puts the control back in the saddle. If you don't circle the horse immediately, the horse will know he has gotten away with something, and will try to have control all the time, rather than letting the rider have control.

God is much the same way as a horse trainer. When the Israelites were called to the Promised Land, they wandered for 40 years! The actual walk to that land was only a couple days away, but they were disobedient to God - so He circled them in the desert for 40 years until they were finally listening!

Today, it's still much the same in our lives, we try to control things. We want to go right, or do this...but wants us to go left and do that! Eventually after enough times of God "making us dizzy in circles", we listen. We don't have to be taken around in circles anymore, in fact...we just go left. So I hope that you can listen to that still small voice in every area of your life so you don't have be dizzy anymore!

Blessings,
Kelley <><