THE DONKEY’S DILEMMA

Don’t be surprised I’m speaking; I’m not the first donkey to do so. Balaam’s donkey did it several years before me. A lot of people heard him, and still hear him. I hope you will listen to me. It all started when Jesus Christ came to the Mount of Olives after leaving Jericho for Jerusalem. He said, "Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there. No one has ever sat on it. Untie it, and bring it. Mk 11:2(GW). I had been a nice donkey all along, and my master knew it well. Before now I guess I was undecided about many things. So undecided I never had any man ride on me. No sir! I wasn’t going to be any one’s fool. I was at the crossroads in life; tied to indecision sort of. How do you know? Well I was tied up outside in a place where two roads met. And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him. Mk 11:4(KJV). Are you like that: waiting for the right person, undecided generally, but at His word you were loosed from indecision?
I must have taken the right decision to let Jesus ride on me that day. Other donkeys tell me people just sit on them and ride, but for me it was different. They brought the donkey to Jesus, put their coats on it, and He sat on it.Mk 11:7(KJV). What a wonderful experience it was: I could feel Jesus right up close to me with each step I took! I was confident I had done the right thing. As if I needed more confirmation, when Jesus began to move many spread their coats on the road. Others cut leafy branches in the fields and spread them on the road. Mk 11:8(GW). No one let my feet touch the bare ground. What a joy to hear them saying, Hosanna; Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest Mk 11:9, 10(KJV). No doubt about it now: I am in the centre of God’s will for my life. I have found the true purpose for being a donkey!
But my dilemma occurred when evening came, Jesus and his disciples left the city Mk 11:19(GNB) and Jesus sent me back to fulfil the promise to my keepers: And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? say, The Lord has need of him and will send him back straight away Mk 11:3(BBE). On the way back, the clothes were off my back and I looked down feeling awkward, and guess what? No coats or branches lined my way either. Worse still: I could no longer feel Jesus near me! Was I still in the will of God? Was it all a mistake? No signs now to assure me. My struggles with indecision came threateningly close.
Then I realised it: the applause was not for me, nor the coats and branches. Feeling Him close was not a surer guarantee. You don’t have to have signs when His word is so clear. I was doing what He clearly commanded. I am in His will.
“Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets”. And they enclosed a large number of fish Lk 5:5-6(ESV).