“...a man...whom God hath hedged in.”~ Job 3:23
Job is not the only one God ever boxed in. David said, “I am shut up and cannot come forth.” Jeremiah: “I am shut up and cannot go.” Of Noah it is written, “The Lord shut him in.” And John was “shut up in prison.” The Divine Record tells us of Moses and God’s people that “The wilderness hath shut them in.” All were shut in, but they were not shut out.
Moody said, “The devil can put a wall around you, but he can’t put a roof on it.” A Christian may be imprisoned by circumstances, but you can’t keep him from God. You may circumvent him, but he is free vertically. Ask Paul and Silas about their prison experience. Their confinement did not keep them from praying and singing praises to their God!
Madame Guyon, a cultured French woman, was imprisoned for her faith from 1695-1705. While in prison she testified that she had great peace as she sang praises to God. She tells us how the stones of her prison walls shone like rubies in her eyes. It was during this time that she wrote one of her choicest hymns. One verse goes like this:
My cage confines me round,
Abroad I cannot fly,
But though my wing is closely bound,
My heart’s at liberty.
My prison walls cannot control
The flight, the freedom of the soul.
Better the will of God that I be shut in with Him, than my will and shut out from Him.
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