Lone Donkey

During the week I take the same route to school. This journey includes me driving through farms and ranches on back country roads; seeing the sunrise each morning on my way to school while driving through the scenery is so relaxing.

One ranch that I drive by, I always take a peek at the horses eating their breakfast. But it isn't the horses that always catch my attention. Instead, underneath and between the legs of the stallions towering over their feeding bowls is a small donkey. Passing by that donkey each morning, I developed a small connection with him. He never really ate with the other horses and was almost always alone. He spent a lot of his time looking at the ground and seemed as if someone killed his best friend. I've always wondered why the other animals didn't want to be around him, but then I thought that I may be reading in to the situation a little too closely.

Then I began to think about when Jesus came in to Jerusalem on a donkey. I started thinking about how different the donkey is in comparison with Jesus. I couldn't believe that the people of Jerusalem allowed someone as influential and honorable as Jesus to ride in a city on an animal that's always alone and sad. I mean, Eeyore from Winnie The Pooh is the most pessimistic cartoon character I can think of. Surely someone like him is no match for the Son of God. Then I realized that Jesus was never in to outward appearances and what other people thought. Instead he was more interested in the matters of the heart. The fact that the people of Jerusalem obeyed Him, arranged the entrance and laid palm trees on the ground for Jesus to walk on probably meant much more to Jesus than arriving on a white stallion that would've only been used for show.

Now whenever I drive by that ranch, I think about Jesus's humility and his ability to overlook being flashy for the sake of what God wanted. It's funny how I got all of that out of a 25 minute commute to my university, but I feel that this was just one of those instances where God speaks to people through various means.

Song of the Post: Sanctus Real - Whatever You're Doing

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