Spiritual Meaning of a Colt: When we dream about a colt, it can represent many different things, depending on the context. If you are riding it, for example, it may represent your ambition or desire. However, if you’re watching the passing of one through your window, it might be about coming to terms with sorrow or loss. As always, having an understanding of the spiritual meaning of horses will help reveal their symbolism in your dream.
This particular item is not just an emblem of a culture but also a symbol of certain spiritual meaning. It may be surprising to many people, but the colt holds a high spiritual symbolism in Hinduism. The main festivals and major ceremonies are not complete without the presence of this animal, which holds a high place in Indian mythology as well.
The word “colt” comes from the same root as the word “cool.” In fact, “cool” is often used as slang for something inexpensive. A horse is also a cool animal, partly because it’s a symbol of freedom and youth. In poetry and religion, horses are associated with galloping into the future or galloping toward death. One of Jesus’ 12 disciples was named Simon, which means “cock” or “colt.” The other name for a colt is foal. These names suggest new beginnings.
Spiritual Meaning of A Colt
The spiritual meaning of a colt is an animal that represents innocence and freedom. The horse’s spirit is one that is wild and untamed, even when domesticated. The colt’s nature can be seen as the purest expression of what it means to be alive, with all of its joys, sorrows, and challenges.
The spiritual meaning of a colt is the ability to overcome challenges and reach your full potential.
In the wild, a colt would be born with its mother and siblings, but the herd’s matriarch would soon separate them. This early separation can be challenging for any young animal, but as long as the mother cow is present and attentive, it will grow into an adult horse that will be able to survive on its own.
As humans, we often feel like we’re separated from our peers by our differences or by outside forces that are beyond our control. We might feel like we don’t fit in or belong anywhere, but if you look at these feelings as challenges instead of obstacles, you’ll find that they can be opportunities for growth and self-discovery.
What Is The Meaning of Colt In The Bible
To dream of a colt indicates that you can be experiencing an unpleasant sensation for a family situation or an undecided behavior with regard to a task that will be completed. A colt symbolizes the simple and the useful, the vital or the thoughtless, as an alert to your willpower or personal behavior.
Dreaming of a colt that eats the grass of your garden is omened to send you to carry out a work far from your house.
If you dream of a colt that runs in front of your work, you will conquer your fears and doubts when conversing with your boss this weekend. Now, this dream can transform your fears into strengths by elevating your self-esteem when developing the most complex and difficult tasks successfully. Only let your spiritual space take force and organize your vision.
To dream of a colt represents an ambitious and driven aspect of yourself that is immature and assertive. A sign that you need to listen and learn more before pushing ahead to fast with your goals.
Jesus And The Colt
“Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them.” (Matthew 21:2–3, NIV)
In Jesus’ time, a donkey was a valuable possession for the ordinary middle-class family. On the day of His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Jesus instructed His disciples to head into the city, untie a colt from its post outside a certain house, and then bring it to Jesus for His use. The only explanation that the disciples were to give to the owner was that “the Lord has need of them.”
Many folks, much like the untied donkey in Matthew’s gospel, feel as though they have come to the end of the road. Waiting. Never really discovering what for. I have found it even more common for those of us in our fifties, sixties, and seventies to play the conversation over and over, asking ourselves, What’s next? What now? As ones who have absorbed life’s blows, endured the wounds of failure, enjoyed our accomplishments, and relished in our successes, we find that we still wonder. We converse with friends, we seek counsel, we pray, and we search for that which matters. We long to know about our significance. If this is you, I have good news! The human spirit will always cry out for more—God created us this way. And because of this, He calls out to us and draws us to Himself. He is coming after us!
We are certainly not donkeys, but I’d like to submit that our relationship to this story may be this: many of us are tied up. And like the untied donkey in the story in the gospel of Matthew, one of the hardest things to come to terms with when we face transition is our usefulness.
Allow me to pose these questions: Are there ropes holding you back, keeping you from knowing which direction to take? Are there ropes that keep you stuck? Have you accepted the lie or agreed with the argument that life is over and there is nothing left? Do you hear the whisper, “I’m too old; too much time has been lost”? Do you wonder where to start? Do thoughts of starting over overwhelm you?
Jesus knows this, beloved one, and as the Anointed One in your life, He comes to untie the ropes that are holding you back, to break every yoke, and to declare to you that your life is not over. There is still much to be done. The Lord has need of you! He is in the business of untying donkeys—of breaking people free from that which holds them back.
You were not created to stay tied up on the post of the city gate. If you feel ordinary and insignificant, I submit to you that He uses ordinary people, strengthening their relationship with Him—all for the advancement of His kingdom.
My friend, the Master is waiting for you, and the time to flourish has just begun. Don’t you see you have been untied from interruptions, work duties, deadlines, and obligations?
Or are you tired? Run down? To you, I say,
Have you never heard?
Have you never understood?
The Lord is the everlasting God.
the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
No one can measure the depth of his understanding. (Isaiah 40:28, NLT)
You no longer must bear the burden; the time has come to meet the burden-bearer Himself!
Father God who made us has planned a wonderful future beyond the certainty of growing old and ending our days on earth doing nothing. His purposeful, significant plan is just ahead—eternity with Him. But for it to be accomplished, He needs you!
He is looking for men and women who will stand in the gap as intercessory catalysts, people who proclaim His promise, whose lives are patterns to be followed, who pave the way for younger generations, whose prayers invoke His presence, and cry out for His return. He is calling those of us who are in our fifties, sixties, and seventies, proclaiming there is yet much to be done: “I, The Lord, have need of you! Will you partner with me?”
You don’t have to spend your latter years in the shadows of yesterday’s accomplishments—there are many new and glorious ones ahead. Indeed, the Lord has need of you!
They shall still bear fruit in old age;
They shall be fresh and flourishing. (Psalm 92:14)
“Even to your old age, I am He,
And even to gray hairs I will carry you!
I have made, and I will bear;
Even I will carry, and will deliver you.” (Isaiah 46:4)
Yes, the Lord has need of you for there is yet another triumphal entry He has planned—one that will not happen until “the spirit and the bride say come.”
May your heart be stirred like the man Simeon in Luke 2:25–35,and may you hear and answer the call to partner with Him in your latter years. Join a generation that is crying out for the glorious return of Christ!
Significance of Unridden Colt
The colt has never been ridden, yet it was set apart for service to the King. Jesus doesn’t ride on a horse or donkey that has been ridden hundreds of times before. He rides into town on an unbroken colt that performs its duty in perfect, worshipful submission.
As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’”
They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. 7 When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted,
“Hosanna!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!”
“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
Mark 11:1-10 NIV
When Jesus rode into Jerusalem to the shouts of Hosanna and blessing, he rode a colt that had never been ridden. If you have never stopped to notice that before, take a moment to reflect on the colt. We want to move on because of the triumphant entry into Jerusalem and the celebration of Jesus as Messiah. We want to worship and announce the beginning of the Passion week in which Jesus dies on the cross and rises again. This is the kick-off of Easter season.
But nestled in this story of the kick-off and the mass worship of the Messiah on Palm Sunday is the colt. The colt has never been ridden. The colt was set apart for the service to the King and never knew it. I don’t think its owners knew anything about the purpose and meaning of this colt. They willingly give the colt up when told, “The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.” I don’t think they were planning for that moment, but rather were supernaturally enlisted into the story of Jesus.
This is all about the story of Jesus. No one had ever ridden the colt because the story was new. This is very much like the new wineskins we heard about at the beginning of Mark’s gospel. Jesus does not fit the old ways and religion of Israel. His new wine will burst the old wineskins and so cannot be poured into them. It is a new day with new wine in new wineskins.
Jesus doesn’t ride on a horse or a donkey that had been commissioned for normal, regular or historic purposes in Jerusalem. He rides into town on a colt that is new and unbroken. It has not been in service before. It has no preconceived ideas of function or direction in that moment. We would expect it would buck or want to throw the Lord. The colt wouldn’t want to naturally go in a straight line over the cloaks, garments and branches. Yet it did.
The colt fulfilled Jesus’ words in Luke 19:40. When the Pharisees objected to Jesus being worshipped on this ride, Jesus replied that if his disciples didn’t worship him, the stones would cry out. This colt cries out in worship and recognition of Jesus as Messiah and Lord by riding in perfect submission into Jerusalem.
