ELUL 8
Boxed In
“You have closed me in, behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.” (Ps 139:5)
Some years ago, one of our horses was expecting her first foal, and we
determined that we would allow her to foal out in one of our pastures, which is
what she did. However, once the foal was
several days old, we wanted to catch mom and baby, with the intent of working
with the foal, and getting it used to human hands. Not happening. That mare ran us all over the pasture for
more than half an hour before we were finally able to corner her, and halter
her. Once she knew she was caught, she
was quiet and submissive, which is her usual disposition.
So it is with us ‘sheeple’. We
tend to get a ‘wild hair up our petoots’, and run ourselves ragged all over the
place until such time as our Father allows circumstances and situations to
‘close us in’, where He can then get His hands on us. How many times have we found ourselves in a
place where we didn’t know what to do?
There was no moving forward, backward, up or down; it was all that we
could do to simply stand. It is in these tight places that Elohim has
our undivided attention.
The month of Elul, including the first ten days of Tishri, is just such
a place. We are boxed in, with nowhere
to turn, and our Creator must have
our complete focus. His purpose is to
‘perfect those things that concern us’, a process that includes removing all of
the trash and junk that we think we
need to hang on to. And the end goal is
becoming the kind of person that our Elohim would want to spend eternity with,
always reflecting the character and person of Messiah Yeshua.
Amein.
“Search me, O
Ěl, and know my
heart; Try me, and know my thoughts; And see if an idolatrous way is in me, And lead me in the way
everlasting.” (Ps 139:23-24)
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