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During the summer months my family, which consisted of a mother and a father, with a brother thrown in, lived on a farm in Pennsylvania. I remember most vividly an experience I had the summer I was 11.

Gary, my brother and Vernon, a neighbor boy were constant companions. Vernon owned a pony; I remember that pony well, and not just because he had one blue eye and one brown eye. A barnyard separated our two farms, and I can recall scurrying across to the other side with that animal chasing me, and just dying to get a nip at my hastening self. He was a large pinto pony, and had the disposition of a Gila monster. And to top off this conglomeration of bad news, Vernon had named him Prince. Prince indeed!

One day my brother and Vernon were teasing me because I would not join them in taking turns riding Prince around the barnyard. In order to quell the din of their jeers I quakingly mounted him. As I settled uneasily into the saddle Prince turned his head and gave me a look of utmost disdain and contempt. Then he proceeded to walk into his stall. That wouldn’t have been so bad if his stall door had not been a Dutch door. I could have survived even that had not the top door been closed and only the bottom open. You can guess what happened. I was painfully scraped from the saddle and left ingloriously hanging by my sleeve from a crack in the top door.

This event soured me on horseback riding for the rest of my life. Of course, anyone with “horse sense” will tell you that I am afraid of riding now because I failed to get back into the saddle and show that pony who was boss.

What happened to me reminds me of some Christians’ experience. They are unsaddled by sin and instead of immediately resuming their rightful place with God by asking for forgiveness, they retreat in fear and defeat.

The Word of God, however, invites us to unhesitatingly reclaim our position. In Proverbs 24:16 we read, “A just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.” And John wrote, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

The promise is twofold in intent. Not only will Christ forgive us our sins, but he will grant power to overcome any future inclination to sin again.

So, mount up!

Published by David C. Cook July 28, 1968

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