THE PICTURE of brokenness is of a wild stallion that wants its independence. It does not want to be ridden; it does not want to be told what to do. Now, it doesn\u2019t mind the cowboy feeding it or keeping the trough full of water. It doesn\u2019t mind having a place to go into out of the rain. It just doesn\u2019t want anyone to get on its back. But the process of breaking a stallion or breaking a wild horse involves the cowboy getting on its back and riding it. The stallion usually bucks and bucks and tries to throw the cowboy off.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet off my back!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBless me with the food. Bless me with the water. Bless me with a covering. But don\u2019t get on my back!\u201d<\/p>\n
The cowboy gets on the back of the horse and rides it out. Sometime he\u2019s thrown off, but if the goal is the breaking, he rides that wild horse until it yields. How do you know when a horse has been broken? It doesn\u2019t lose its strength; it doesn\u2019t lose the muscles in its legs. It does not lose its God-given uniqueness and identity as a horse. It\u2019s just now a horse under somebody else\u2019s control.<\/p>\n
Many of us want the blessings from God, but we don\u2019t want Him riding us and bringing us into submission to His will.55<\/p>\n
[Blessing; Submission]<\/p>\n
James 4:7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE PICTURE of brokenness is of a wild stallion that wants its independence. It does not want to be ridden; it does not want to be told what to do. Now, it doesn\u2019t mind the cowboy feeding it or keeping the trough full of water. It doesn\u2019t mind having a place to go into out … Continue reading “BROKENNESS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}