Mark's Page
My Dad grew up on a small farm in southern Michigan. That information is only interesting to me because I grew up far away from all farm life. I was always amazed by his lack of fear around four footed beast. One day, as he easily saddled my grandparents horse I asked him if he was scared of the animal. He laughed and said, “The only horse to be scared of is the horse that knows you’re scared”. I thought he could ride any horse in the world. A few years later my uncle bought an unbroken draft horse. Every time I went near its paddock it would charge the fence and make it known the goal of his life was to end mine. One day I asked my Dad if he could ride the draft horse. He laughed again and said, “What do you want, to collect my life insurance? Some horses are meant to be stayed away from!” You see Dad understood mortality. Having a body born, into sin, means we are mortal. One of the problems we humans seems to struggle with is the fact that we are mortal. We live as if this world was all in all and we are able to saddle every wild horse that comes into our lives. We allow computers in our homes knowing we struggle with the evil on them. We bring television into the living room and bedrooms and wonder where the kids learn their behavior. We forget we are mortal and have no business getting into the paddock with wild horses. The temptation to impress, to pretend that we can control everything, is to forget the God who became man. Thank God for our limitations! There is an answer! Praise God we serve a God that understands what it means to be mortal. He knows the feeling of needing to walk away from situations beyond His control. (Luke 4:28-30) Finally He understands what it means to die. As we focuses uniquely on the event of God becoming man remember to remember your limits.
