Hog Tying Conflict & Podcast

Hog Tied at a Basketball Game

I watched a local high school girls’ basketball game and they put on an excellent show. Quick and aggressive, they fearlessly dove after loose balls. They drove to the basket with a fast break, full court press. Then, they hit three pointers. A real hog tying type of exhibition.

The other team looked like they wanted to go home after the first quarter. Our girls won by over thirty points.

An old-timer next to me shook his head. “Them little ladies sure did hog tie that team in green, didn’t they?” The old man was right. At times it seemed they bound the other team in ropes.

Definition

In rodeo, hog tying means to throw an animal and then bind it by tying two hind feet and a front foot together with a piggin string rope. All you have to do is loop the forefront, then shove the back feet on top. You wrap all three with a couple loops. Then, you tie a half hitch or a hooey. This keeps the animal immobile while you doctor him or whatever else needs to be done.

Application

You don’t hog tie horses, of course. But people can bind themselves up socially, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. Sin probably hobbles us more than anything else. We’re incapacitated and useless to accomplish any good thing. The Bible says, “Throw off anything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles us and let us run with perseverance the race marked out before us” (Hebrews 12:1).

Unlike being hog tied, we bring sin upon ourselves. Wouldn’t that be a strange and ridiculous sight? A runner prepared for a race by tying both feet and a hand together. He’d still be wallowing in the dirt while the other runners lapped him. Like Christians who think they can proceed with their walk with the Lord and still openly disobey biblical commands. Instead, we’re rendered useless.

Stephen Bly

Circa 1989

Rope Image by 👀 Mabel Amber, who will one day from Pixabay

Runner Silhouette Image by depuys from Pixabay

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