No Bridle or Bit Needed
8I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. 9Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you. Psalm 32:8-9 NIV
God uses pain to train us and make us stronger, but also to correct our life’s direction. Look at God’s invitation in verse 9. He doesn’t want to use pain to guide you through this life. He is always instructing, teaching, and counseling, but when we keep wandering off He has to use the bit and bridle to get us back on track. God would much rather that we follow His lead without the pain and struggle.
How much better would it be for us to get onto God’s agenda each day. And we can. He doesn’t want to control us and our every move, but He does have purposes and meaning for us to pursue, and sometimes specific places for us to go, and people for us to minister to. When you are on His agenda, doing your day in and day out calling from Him, you will find those moments in your daily life without having to be bridled or stabbed with a bit to get you there. They will just happen.
Think back on your life and remember those moments when God got you back on track: an accident, a scare, a reality check. Thank God for loving you enough to do that! But also thank Him that today, if you are on track to doing His life of purpose that He made you for, you will just find great meaning along the way.
John Eaton
Pastor of RELATE Church
(214) 733-3069