Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Picking up where we left off yesterday, how do you recognize you are broken? I like to picture the process of breaking a wild horse. First you have to catch it, corral it, and ride it until it surrenders to the rider.

The catching of man is God’s sovereign will identifying the time for which any one of us needs to be prepared for surrender. This happens for us in life by situations and circumstances upon which we run wild and free, but suddenly it loses it excitement, it loses its luster. Life takes on a burden it never presented before.

The corral is that hedged in feeling that you cannot seem to escape the uneasiness that now weighs upon your conscience. Every which way you turn, you find yourself boxed in, trapped. There is for some a panic to escape that sets upon our souls.

Now the breaking begins as the Holy Spirit actively rides you into submission. There comes that point where you have no will to do anything but surrender.

This sounds like a severe example and perhaps the description is a little drastic but then again, some horses are easier to break than others. This does not take into account a horse born into the farm where the mother shows the colt that it is right to trust the rider. A colt who sees the mother’s joy in the rider cannot wait for the day they are old enough to be ridden themselves.

This analogy best fits those of us who lived a wild, reckless, and rebellious life. And now it is time to speak to the second part of what identifies a beneficiary, answering the door.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.