JUNE 5

FENCED IN TO HIMSELF

“I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.” (Hab. 2:1)

The word “tower,” sometimes called the “strong hold,” has a dual meaning, as a cut off or fenced in place. Cut off from that which is without, fenced in and secluded to that which is within.

In Isaiah 53:8 it speaks of how Christ was “CUT OFF out of the land of the living.” Same word is used in Dan. 2:45, of the “stone that was CUT OUT OF the mountain without hands.” Surely the stone that was cut off of the mountain is being united with HIM who also was cut off – and they shall be one. Flee out of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul! God is cutting off of this kingdom a stone that shall ultimately smite all the kingdoms of this world, and bring them into submission to Christ. God cannot gather His chosen ones together inside Babylon, there is no true oneness, in that camp. It is as He calls us one by one unto Himself, without the camp, that we are duly processed and joined into one with Him.

But not only is this a “cut off” place, a separated state, it also means a FENCED IN PLACE. One of the blessings of this separation is that while we are cut off from everything else, we are SHUT IN WITH GOD, encompassed about with His mercies and inworking grace.

How little have we realized all the things God would use to fence us in to Himself. David once wrote, “the sorrows of death compassed me… the sorrows of hell compassed me about.” (Ps. 18:4-5). We wept because of the many sorrows, regions of death that surrounded us, for we knew not the purpose they were intended of God, but they were fencing us in to Him. Why behold all this in the negative! See it in the positive realm! Why this fencing in? Because He is turning our eyes away from people, props, things, that we might behold Him. Our hope of reality is resident in Him. Fenced in to Him we shall receive that message which will answer the deep cry of our heart.