(Psalms
Study)
Most
people associate horse-drawn carriages with romance and fairy tales. I didn’t
think much about it until I saw a human pull a rickshaw in Kolkata (formerly
known as Calcutta), India. Now, every time I see a horse pulling anything, I
wonder how it feels about being used as a beast of burden—walking around busy
city streets with blinders on, harnessed and controlled by humans, pulling a
carriage filled with people who don’t feel like using their own legs. I wish
these horses could be galloping freely in some lush valley instead.
Sometimes
I feel like one of these horses—controlled and manipulated by those who have
harnessed me. I walk along with
blinders, oblivious to everything other than what the driver wants me to see. I
pull baggage that is not my own. And like these horses, I get accustomed to
this way of life. Those who never experience freedom from bondage assume that
this is the only way to live.
“Then
God ripped the harnesses…” (Psalm 129:4 MSG)
Lord, thank You
for ripping the harnesses which allow others to control and manipulate me.
Thank you for taking the blinders off and releasing me from a life of pulling
burdens.
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