Study Desk

He's going to keep you strong in the saddle and on the day of his return, he's going to vouch for you before God.

All of this is what God promised, and he don't ever crawfish on a promise. He's made us a partner with Jesus on his outfit.

God didn't send me to see how many people I could baptize. He sent me to preach the good news. And I don't do it with clever words or speeches. Jesus's strength don't lie in fancy tongue talk.

Jesus's message from the cross is folly to those heading for the kill-truck. But those of us who will ride in the green grass forever, we know the cross is the power of God.

This begs the question, can wisdom be found here on earth? Let me answer—it cannot! Because God has turned conventional thinking on its head like a forefooted runaway steer.

God made sure he couldn't be found with the scientific method or fancy philosophy. In his wisdom, he has used simple cowboy preaching, the type the "wise" have scoffed at, to save those people who choose to believe.

But to those who have been saved, they understand Jesus is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Don't forget cowboys, there were very few of you who were considered wise by worldly standards or thought to be rich and powerful. But then God got ahold of you.

God chose the lowest of us to shame those on high. He personally chose nobodies to show the somebodies what he could do. He chose the weak to put the powerful in their place.

God chose those looked down upon to shame those who turn their nose up.

God used his Son to bring us together and make a crew out of us. God made pure wisdom into a man and called him his Son. His Son vouched for us and made us right with God; he freed us from the slavery of sin.

That's why the Good Book says, "If you're gonna brag, brag about what God has done."

God wanted it like this because he wants you to trust in his abilities, not in men's words.

Nope, this wisdom comes from the mystery of God himself. This secret has been hidden from the world for a long time but was finally revealed for our glory and his honor.

This is what the Good Book meant when it said, "No eye has seen, nor any ear has heard; no mind could even imagine what God has in store for those who ride for him."

God told us the secret through the Holy Ghost. His Spirit is the one who guides us on the trail and reveals the mysteries of God.

When a cowboy rides the pastures, only his soul hears his secret thoughts. It's the same way with God.

The Holy Spirit is the soul of God and it knows God's thoughts and explains them to us.

And just like a city fellow can't know what it's like to ride for the brand, neither can an unbeliever know what God's thoughts are. They think all this stuff about God is just myth and folly. But it's no surprise to us, is it? A cowboy's secrets can't be explained to a tenderfoot. They'd never understand the life or the code of the West.

Listen cowboys and cowgirls, when I was with you, I had to talk to y'all like the greenhorns you were. You knew nothing of riding for God. You only knew how to ride for yourselves. You were like little kids.