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Thus he complained to himself: "Why has my brother been so honored, and I am neglected?
They have not put bells on my feet, nor pom-poms on my head. The Master has not given
me the wonderful responsibility of pulling His carriage, nor put about me the golden
harness. Why have they chosen my brother instead of me?" And by the Spirit the answer
came back to me as I watched. "Because one submitted to the will and discipline of the
Master, and one rebelled, thus has one been chosen and the other set aside."

A Famine in the Land

Then I saw a great drought sweep across the countryside, and the green grass became
dead, dry, brown and brittle. The little streams of water dried up, stopped flowing, and
there was only a small muddy puddle here and there. I saw the little colt (I was amazed that
it never seemed to grow or mature) as he ran here and there, across the fields looking for
fresh streams and green pastures, finding none. Still he ran, seemingly in circles, always
looking for something to feed his famished spirit. But there was a famine in the land, and
the rich green pastures and flowing streams of yesterday were not to be had. And one day
the colt stood on the hillside on weak and wobbly legs, wondering where to go next to find
food, and how to get strength to go. It seemed like there was no use, for good food and
flowing streams were a thing of the past, and all the efforts to find more only taxed his
waning strength. Suddenly he saw the King’s carriage coming down the road, pulled by six
great horses. And he saw his brother, fat and strong, muscles rippling, sleek and beautiful
with much grooming. His heart was amazed and perplexed, and he cried out: "My brother,
where do you find the food to keep you strong and fat in these days of famine? I have run
everywhere in my freedom, searching for food, and I find none. Where do you, in your awful
confinement, find food in this time of drought? Tell me, please, for I must know!" And then
the answer came back from a voice filled with victory and praise: "In my Master’s House,
there is a secret place in the confining limitations of His stables where He feeds me by His
own hand, and His granaries never run empty, and His well never runs dry." And with this
the Lord made me to know that in the day when people are weak and famished in their
spirits in the time of spiritual famine, that those who have lost their own wills, and have
come into the secret place of the most High, into the utter confinement of His perfect will,
shall have plenty of the corn of Heaven, and a never ending flow of fresh streams of
revelation by His Spirit. Thus the vision ended.

Interpretation of the Vision

"Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it."
(Habakkuk 2:2) "Harness the horses: and get up, ye horsemen" (Jeremiah 46:4). I’m sure
that many of you who can hear what the Spirit saith to the Church, have already seen what
God was showing in the vision. But let me make it plain. Being born into the Family of God,
feeding in the green pastures and drinking of the many streams of the unfolding revelation
of His purposes is fine and wonderful. But it is not enough. While we were children, young,
undisciplined, limited only by the outer fence of the Law that ran around the limits of the
pastures, (that kept us from getting into the dark pastures of poison weeds), He was content
to watch us develop and grow into young manhood, spiritually speaking. But the time came
to those who fed in His pastures, and drank at His streams, when they were to be brought
into discipline or "child-training" for the purpose of making them mature Sons.