Are you a dog person or a cat person?  Some, like my sweet wife, are crazy about both.  Some people like neither.  The Psalmist warns us against being horse people.  Whoa there… the Psalmist doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy a nice trail ride or the distinct pleasure of mucking out stables.  Hey, you can barrel race or jump if you have the nerve for it.  I for my part avoid things with a thousand pounds of muscle, a small brain and no brakes, but that’s me.  What the Psalmist says is this:

Do not be like a horse or a mule, which have no understanding;
Who must be fitted with bit and bridle,
Or else they will not stay near you.          (Psalm 32:9)

Now Trigger may have come when Roy Rogers whistled, but in general the principle holds true.  Horses wander and good dogs follow.  There are few sights so pleasing to my eye than when someone is walking a dog and the dog is continually looking up at the person holding the leash.  I get the sense that the dog is saying:  “wherever you’re going; I’m happy to go there too.”  You can tell the dog is delighting in its relationship with its human companion. 

That’s how we should walk with God.  We should not be like a horse that will wander off in a thousand different directions unless it’s controlled by bit and bridle.  Instead, we should have our eyes on the Master, ready to follow wherever He leads.

Prayer:Loving God, bind my heart to yours and lead me where you will.  Help me to follow you with gladness, keeping my eyes steadfast on you, undistracted by any lesser things that might catch my eye.  Amen.