When I was little, one of the scariest stories I heard was The Legend of the Headless Horseman. It had to do with an awkward school teacher named Ichabod Crane and it took place back in the 1700's in the Hudson Valley of New York where Dutch immigrants had settled. The very idea that an evil character pursued people out on dark lonely nights..riding headless on horseback was both terrifying and, now that I think about it, totally ridiculous. Our head is our control center. There is absolutely no way that riding a horse or seeking to accomplish anything without a head makes any kind of sense. (Of course scary stories don't have to make sense...in fact I don't think they are supposed to!). But, in another sense, many of us are walking around something like the Headless Horseman (so I guess we're also the Horseless, Headless Horsemen). We were designed by our Creator to have our own heads and to have our heads directly under His Head. Without His control center governing our heads and without His authority heading our personal decision and value center we are as awkward and incomplete as a headless horseman. Yesterday we talked about being homeless until we have found our Home in the Lord...today I'll stick my neck out and claim that we are headless until we align our personal heads under His Head. When I was in the Navy we'd ask the helmsman (steering the ship) what his "heading" was to ensure he was going the right direction. When our heading is in the direction of the Lord we can be confident that we are lining our head up with the one true Head of all.
Ephesians 4:15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
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