Baaaad Goat!!!



When I think of goats, I think of growing up in Grenada, MS where farm animals were plentiful, but not so much in the urban areas. However, there was this one goat that lived in the city limits, not too far from our neighborhood. This goat was white, huge, and baaaad.

Everybody was terrified when it made its weekly escape from the backyard. People would warn us as we walked in the neighborhood, “Watch out. The goat is on the loose again.”  If we ever encountered it, we knew it would surely chase us down the street and wreck havoc on anything it could get its teeth around. Anything from laundry hanging on the lines, food in the neighbors vegetable garden, or maybe even a small child if it could catch one. Nothing was off limits to this mischief making animal.

In hindsight, the goat was really doing what it was made to do. Goats are known for being curious (nosy), mischievous (messy), and baaaad (disobedient). If you think about it. You probably know some people with these same characteristics.

Some of your closest friends may be goat-like in their behavior. They need to know about everyone’s business, they are constant sowers of discord, and you can ask them anything, but you can tell them nothing. These people can lead a sheepish person right into the hands of the enemy. As a matter of fact, the enemy uses these people for that exact purpose.

Oh they look unsuspecting and harmless, but do not you turn your back on them. They are likely to give you a swift kick in the rear without so much as a second thought. They are the animal that will test out every inch of a fence to see if will find a weak board or wire. And once they do, they exploit it every chance they get.

We as believers need to be aware of the “goats”. Just as a goat looks for weaknesses in the fence, the “goat-like” will look for weak people to prey on and often manipulate. They are similar to “sheep”, but there is one main difference. The inability to follow. People can train a goat to walk on “leads” as well as pull a cart, but they are not natural born followers like their cousins the sheep. Therefore, it is next to impossible to truly put these mischief makers under submission.

These types often have seeds that are just as baaaad as the parent. These “kids” are billy’s, I mean bullies and have heads as hard as bricks. They rally to make the life of the less rambunctious (aka sheep) a living hell. If they are not causing trouble, they are probably leading some unsuspecting child astray.

I urge the believers to beware of the goats. They are not to be trusted. And as I heard a wise man say,  “Stop referring to your children as “kids, because they are not the offspring of the mischief maker.” Unless of course…..you are indeed one of those baaaad goats.