I could regulate them to the table, but I could not make them work.
I could punish them, but I could not make them complete their assignments.
And so the battle began.
One fighting in authority, the other fighting in independence.
Two Alphas with locked horns over a battle of wills and neither conceding despite the exhaustion.
Locked horns look different for everyone. Maybe your horns are locked with a child, a parent, a spouse or a boss. Maybe the Alpha you fight is an industry or a company or a system of injustice. Maybe your fight is within, battling anxiety or depression or worry.
Your horns are locked and you are fighting with every ounce of your being.
We are all struggling right now. Each and every one of us.
Which brings me here; staring at the pasture in front of me. The words from Psalm 23 come to mind.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside still waters,
He restores my soul.
"Lie down in the green pasture."
"God, I'm a little too busy in this fight to lie down. Help me in the fight."
"I am. Lie down."
"Can't you see I'm right? Can't you see the fight I'm in? I am tired God and can't do this on my own. You need to help me."
"Beloved, this isn't your fight. The struggle is yours, but the fight is Mine. Lie down in the green pasture. It isn't a request."
He MAKES me lie down in green pastures.
God knows my burden. He knows my weary.
And the answer is to lie down in the green pasture. In the abundance of the field I am fed, I am nourished, I am given rest.
You see friends, it is after time in the pasture that one is strengthened enough to be led. It is then when He leads us to the still waters; those life-giving, soul-quenching still waters. We must recharge and strengthen ourselves before we can begin the journey to the water.
For it is at the still waters where He restores our soul.
He doesn't fix it. He doesn't mend it.
He restores it.
But first, He makes us lie down in green pastures.
Lie down friends.
Find His abundance in the pasture in front of you.
