Are you a Rough Rider or a Weary Walker?

Would someone looking at your zeal for Christ describe you more as a rough rider, or a weary walker? Some of you are probably thinking that regardless of what some might say, you definitely feel like a weary walker! Well, take heart. It is the faithful weary walkers that are the true rough riders.


This photograph is a picture of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment that went to Cuba to fight in the Spanish American War. Their first commander was Colonel Woods. Due to transport difficulties they were shipped without their horses, and they had to fight on foot. Their original nickname was Wood's Weary Walkers. It was later under their second commander Teddy Roosevelt that they became known as Roosevelt's Rough Riders.

So cheer up all you weary walkers! You'll eventually get your horses, and you will be among those rough riders that follow Christ into the decisive battle at the end of the age:

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
And the armies [which were] in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. - Revelation 19:11, 13-14

In the mean time, we must be content to fight on foot:

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) - 2 Corinthians 5:7

[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.- Galatians 5:16, 25

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them [good works for Christ]. - Ephesians 2:10

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Ephesians 5:2, 8

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk ye in him [Christ Jesus]:
Colossians 2:6

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 1:7

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
3 John 1:4

Walk, my brothers and sisters, walk! And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall get our horses (Galatians 6:9).

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.