The Hedgeless Man…
Beyond Job’s Hedge: Kingdom Purpose
The problem to satan had always been the hedge!
Life in the hedge was not without faults, it was not paradise. Satan earlier had misjudged the hedge as a hidden paradise that he could not penetrate. Life inside the hedge was not a burden-less life either. Job knew that it held dangers, dangers that only prosperity can manifest in the human heart. God’s purpose for the hedge is to develop our vital relationship with Him. God is looking for the fellowship of a fearless man; a man unafraid of God testing how he handles success in open spaces, the open spaces where utter failure breeds.
The hedged life was never meant to be a false comfort zone, a place immune from failure or the pitfalls of prosperity. The boundaries are given to limit us from our own self-destruction. But we must never forget that is the place that increases our opportunity to fully become a threat to darkness, an embarrassment to dark hordes and life beyond the hedge.
Simply stated, inside the hedge we learn spiritual responsibility. This equips us to understand later that outside the hedge it is God alone who is sufficient to bear this responsibility. We learn responsibility in an arena of “as good as it can get” only to surrender that responsibility in an arena of “as bad as it can get.” God’s intended purpose is for us to embrace the life inside the hedge to prepare us for life outside and beyond the hedge. The hedge-less man is the Paradise man.
What a waste just to live… acquire… and die. Paradise beckons… for the gifts received there are necessary to walk properly in the earth. Within this work, you have a date with a seizure. God is foreclosing on empty theology, enrapturing it… by force if necessary. He forms, and in time, He liberates us to live outside the hedge.
*from a conversation with Gary Rich and Jt Cardwell
