There Ain't No Easy Horses In Life

II Corinthians 5:1-15
By Harold Dinsmore, M.Div.
© 2007 Harold Dinsmore

            A few years ago there was a song on the radio that was pretty popular called “There Ain’t No Easy Horses”  by Craig Bickhardt. It went like this,  There ain’t no easy horses, But ya got to learn to ride, You may fall you may stumble, Before you hit your stride, Mother earth will catch you, Don’t be afraid to try, There ain’t no easy horses, But you got to learn to ride.”

In our passage before us this morning, II Corinthians 5:1-15, we find a text that is packed full with excellent truths.  In verse 1-5 we find that life is rough because it says here we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly body like unto Christ.  We groan, why?  I liken this to what Jesus said in John 16:33, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”  As believers we long to be what God intended us to be. Like unto Christ.  A passage in I John 3:2 puts it this way, “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known.  But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”  This brings up something I bet we have all thought about as a kid or even as adults.  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have super-human powers.  Like maybe Superman?  When Christ comes we will see him as he is and will be like him.  He walked through walls, flew off into the heavens and rose from the dead.  We will  be like him.  We as a people of God long to be completed.  To be like what God intended for us to be before man messed everything all up for themselves in the Garden of Eden when we disobeyed God and fell from our position of Grace and Innocence.