Hanging Out With God: What Does God Expect from Us? — Horse Training | Cowboy Wisdom | Steve Dyer

Описание: Hi, I'm Steve Dyer, and I'm in the pen today with this little horse called Smoke. He is going to help me illustrate something about relationship, just hanging out really. He's about 10-years-old and I've been working with him for a couple of months or so. When he first came here, he would get really nervous when I would just walk up to him, or any human. When you'd walk up to him, his head would come up and he'd kind of flare his nostrils because he was afraid that I wanted something from him that I had expectations, and he didn't know what they were, and it just made him full, a bundle of nerves, and so I've just been doing several things, but this is one of them to try to help him to realize that he can just relax around me. And what I've done, this is like I think the third time I've done this. So see his head come up right there? He just got a little anxious, like what is he expecting of me?

So what I've been doing is just laying over this horse. Now I just crawl up on him here, and this is an old Native American technique to get your heartbeat next to the horse's heartbeat. And just rubbing on him and saying hey, you don't need to do anything, just hang out with me. You're okay. I just like hanging out with you. And as I've been training this horse, and he's been getting better, it occurred to me that lots of people, millions of people feel that way about God. They're afraid to approach God because they are afraid that God expects something from them that they cannot do or cannot give. It's just not true.

Jesus summed it up this way, he said, "If you're burdened, or if you are afraid, if you're lonely, if you're hurting, he said come to me and I'll give you rest." And that's all God is asking for, is for us to come to Him and just be with Him, and that's where the healing is found. So this horse is getting better and if you'll just come to God, and just say, "I am who I am, can we just hang out?" I think you'll find some healing. Okay? Hope that helps you.