When
training horses I have found, often you get down the trail a ways and find that
the foundation that was originally laid breaks down when you really begin to
ask a horse to do something that they don’t naturally like to do. I have found
in my own life this is also true. If the foundational pieces have not been laid
well, we will always have issues down the road.
When
training a horse we start with simple expectations that don’t require much
accept a willingness to stand still or to move their feet in a particular way.
These pieces of the training process often times seem as though they aren’t
that big of a deal and so if the horse seems to get it a person moves on to
the stuff they really want their horse to be able to do. The problem is these
seemingly minor issues will show up magnified later.
Case in point!
You want your horse to stand still when you are in the saddle. So you work on
things from the ground and he stands relatively well so you move on. You get on
your horse and all he wants to do is walk around, follow the other horses, and
be otherwise fidgety. You didn’t take the time to move him around the arena under
saddle until he was tired enough to want to stop and stand and then keep him
moving for a while longer, several times. So now though you have an ok horse
you don’t have a truly quiet horse.
We are much
the same. We study something out in the word and feel like we have an ok grasp
of it and so we move on to read something else having not walked out the
particular thing we were learning about in our daily walk (Hebrews 5:14) says "by reason of use have exercised their senses". This becomes
problematic as we get farther down the road. When, we bump into something more
difficult to walk out in our life and we haven’t practiced it consistently. It
hasn’t gotten to the automatic stage in our daily walk and we stumble in an
area we thought we had control of or felt we had gained maturity.
We need to get excited about chewing on the word. Truly tasting the truth of who God is and what He has called us to. We all need to build solid foundations in the basic biblical truths of life. If we do they will overtime not only be foundations, but they will become buildings that will protect us and provide shelter for those around us.
We need to get excited about chewing on the word. Truly tasting the truth of who God is and what He has called us to. We all need to build solid foundations in the basic biblical truths of life. If we do they will overtime not only be foundations, but they will become buildings that will protect us and provide shelter for those around us.