One September day in the mid eighties, my dad and I were riding in a wagon. Dad had the reins to a team of young horses named Freckles and Wildfire. We had a runaway due to an equipment malfunction. Dad was quite seriously injured in the crash that ensued. I on the other hand landed on my head and shoulder and since then I have jokingly stated that was the reason I did not get hurt as bad.
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Perhaps there is a lesson here apart from the runaway team? And I do have your attention, as well.
Over the years I have heard the phrase, "Hitch your wagon". Perhaps I relate due to the fact that it still had some meaning to the generation that came before me on the ranch. Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to "hitching your wagon to a star".
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However, I have asked myself often, "To whom or what have I hitched my wagon"?
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Caution to be adhered to is simply... "Who or what do you want to 'hitch your wagon' ... What is the outcome ahead... Positive... Negative?... Will you and what you have and those that are in your care be compromised?
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Honestly... I have a concern by what I see in this day and age that many have not considered the outcome of their decisions. Each must take ownership of the path to which they follow and what they have "hitched" to. Too many have hitched their wagon to policy and politicians... status and celebrity ... fortune and position... spiritualism and religiousity ... Certainly there are other possibilities as well.
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It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in humans. Ps. 118:8
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Sadly many that claim to follow God... have ignored the refuge found in the Lord and have put themselves in blind enslavement because they have thrown their trust to human kind...
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Where is your "wagon hitched"? Finally, If you would like to comment on this post, please consider doing so with Scripture.
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But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15