“There’s a horse on I-95 headed south on the northbound lanes!” the police officer reported, calling in for additional help.
During the night a moose had rammed into the fence of Daisy’s pasture and knocked it to the ground. Daisy had escaped. The family who owned Daisy followed the horse’s tracks through the wet, mucky woods, across a stream and finally to the ditch that ran alongside the highway. But once Daisy got to the road she didn’t leave any tracks, so they were no longer able to follow her. It was then that Daisy’s owners called the police for help to find her.
“Yes, we’ve got her,” the Police Department said. “It sure took a long time, but we finally managed to corral her at Pittsfield, after she had backed up traffic for several miles.
Daisy had been on the loose without even a bridle on, so she was hard to catch. But finally a man who knew how to handle horses approached her with a bucket of oats and a halter. Daisy was hungry, and, like most horses, she loved oats. While she was eating the oats, the man was able to slip the halter over her head quite easily.
Many of us have spent time running through life out of control, just like Daisy. I remember not wanting anyone to limit my freedom by telling me what I could and couldn’t do. But one day someone who recognized that I was actually lost in sin offered me living food for my empty soul. It only took one taste of that bread of life to know I wanted more. “Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst” (John 6:3535And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35)). I found that Jesus completely satisfies. He is the One who knew all about my empty, wandering life of sin and gave me His forgiveness and eternal life instead.
Jesus died on the cross so He could offer you forgiveness and eternal life, if you are willing to be truly sorry for your empty life of sin and turn to Him. I hope you will be as eager to accept God’s gift of love and feed on the bread of life as Daisy was to gobble up those oats.
ML-09/02/2012