The Gap
Groom
“I know, my God, that You test the heart and that You are pleased with uprightness. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart.”–1 Chronicles 29:17a
Tack
Too often as equestrians, we desire to live a life we know we cannot live. What I mean is that we desire for our external life (the life everyone sees—wins and accomplishments) to be greater than our internal life (our thoughts and desires).
The best definition of hypocrisy I’ve heard is that it is the gap that exists between the public life and the private life—the difference between the external and the internal. God doesn’t want a gap; He wants integrity.
As competitors there is a constant war in our souls. We do not want others to see us as we really are. We are afraid that the gap will be exposed. However, God desires the opposite. He wants us to bring the dark (the things we have buried in our hearts) into the light so He can purify us. Oswald Chambers wrote, “My worth to God in public is only what I am in private.” As a competitor for Christ, be committed to being real—gap free!
Ride
- Where are the gaps in your life?
- As a competitor, do you expect something from other equestrians that you are not willing to commit to yourself?
- What does it mean to be a “real” competitor?
- More scripture
- Psalms 25:21; 78:72
- Proverbs 10:9
- Titus 2:6-8
Cool Down
- Guided Prayer
- Pray that God will reveal any gaps in your life. It is by His strength and power that those gaps can be crushed.
- Pray for the desire to live and ride for the Lord as a real and authentic competitor.
*adapted from devotional written by Dan Britton
FCA Equestrian Devotionals and Blog



