| Horses are great examples of the possibility humans | | | | a speed horse, each of God's children has a different |
| have of relationship with God. The relationship | | | | purpose and relationship with Him. |
| between horse and rider exhibited in any upper level | | | | The horse trainer leads the horse to its highest level of |
| competition, or a teenage girl and her beloved pony | | | | achievement. The horse does not consider whether it |
| that would crawl on its knees if necessary to follow | | | | should race or jump. The only concerns of a horse in |
| her, are illustrations of God's purpose for man. | | | | right relationship to its trainer are security, food, water |
| The horse at its peak of performance is not exhibiting | | | | and shelter. Should circumstances remove a horse |
| the highest level of horsiness possible, but an amazing | | | | from a deluxe stable to a base shelter, as long as the |
| feat of relationship with its rider. Nowhere in the natural | | | | security and provisions remain, it will sleep just as |
| order of the horse will you find one spinning rapidly on | | | | soundly until called by its master. |
| its hindquarters like a reiner. No intelligent horse would | | | | In the same circumstances, humans would be fighting |
| choose to jump a five-foot high log when level ground | | | | over the prettiest winter blanket, the corner stall, and |
| is but a few feet away. There is no reward for a | | | | would turn up their nose at their oats unless served in |
| horse should it trot in place in piaffe on the grasslands | | | | a bucket that coordinated with the color of their tail. |
| of the plains or gallop in orderly fashion around a | | | | Horses are not so petty in their preferences. More |
| course of balloons amid blazing gunfire. | | | | than anything else, a horse seeks security. |
| Horses will do all these marvelous things when asked | | | | Horses know that security and love are not affected |
| by their riders if the bonds of relationship are strong | | | | by circumstance and surroundings. This is a lesson |
| enough. All horses do not have the same capability | | | | wise humans may learn from the horse. By submitting |
| and no horseman or horsewoman would even think | | | | its equine spirit to the trainer, the two begin to pursue |
| such a thing. The call of the horse through the | | | | what is possible. Their success or failure will be |
| centuries has inspired humans to pursue ever-higher | | | | determined solely by the quality of relationship. |
| possibilities through relationship with this elegant and | | | | A Christian is chosen to pursue relationship with God. |
| noble animal. The reward of the relationship between | | | | Only this relationship provides us with leadership, |
| human and horse is the pursuit of possibility itself. | | | | security and provision. More than anything else, |
| Wild horses in the western regions of the United | | | | Christians have security. In right relationship with God |
| States are clearly successful at being wild. Those that | | | | we are content to learn, and work together with the |
| remain have best mastered their circumstance by | | | | Holy Spirit to pursue possibility. Only by submitting our |
| being naturally equine. The horses most successful at | | | | human spirit to God are we able to test the heights of |
| survival in the wild are the least likely to enter into | | | | performance and experience. |
| relationship with a human. | | | | Christians may well look to the horse as a role model. |
| Men and women who are most successful at being | | | | If your goal is to be only of the world and remain |
| naturally human are the least likely to achieve a right | | | | naturally human, study wild horse behavior. To test all |
| relationship with God. It is only when we surrender our | | | | limits of human possibility, pursue relationship with God. |
| humanity to God and let Him train and mold us that we | | | | He does not call us to be slaves, but beloved children. |
| will begin the glorious pursuit of what is possible in | | | | "The nature of the horse remains unchanged, whether |
| Christian life. | | | | it carries the saddle of the prince, or whether it draws |
| Will the picture of peak performance in relationship with | | | | the cart of the wagoner. The noble ones accept the |
| God look the same for each of us? No. Just as a | | | | yoke, they serve, but will never be slaves, for to |
| reining horse is not a jumper, is not a draft horse, is not | | | | themselves they can never be traitors. |