I know a little boy who prayed every night for months,
“Lord, if it’s Thy will, give me a donkey.”
Now I fear the father of this boy scarcely expected it would come, but it did; and not a donkey only, but a saddle and bridle, all trimmed with red, and mounted with brass. There was a whip, too; and everything that could be needed, even to a little stable.
This boy used to have a grand time galloping around the house, and about the garden. But he was only a little boy, and the donkey was very wise, so when he thought he had carried the boy far enough, he would turn and make a bolt for a big, thick hedge and force his way through it, and the poor little boy would be shoved off, and left sitting on the ground on the other side.
The donkey did this because he liked to go his own way, instead of his hide master’s way.
You and I are often very much like that donkey, are we not? As the Scripture says,
“We have turned everyone to his own way,” and even after the Lord hath laid on Him our iniquities, how slow we are to learn to go our Master’s way, and to do His will instead of our own!
Do we need to be guided as the horse or the mule? Dear fellow Christian, what a shame that this should be so! Is this the only way our Master can guide us? No, thank God, there is another way,—He says,
“I will guide thee with Mine eye.”
May you and I, dear reader, ever be found with our eyes on Christ, “looking off unto Jesus,” for it is sure, He cannot guide us with His eye, if our eve is away from Himself.
ML 07/09/1939