There was this group of turkeys on my former
route walking while I was delivering mail. There was this one turkey, in
particular that looked like it was hurt/been through as it was the only one hobbling.
There was this group of turkeys that it was following. They were clustered
together while the lone one was walking slower and lagging behind, but it kept
on walking toward them. The others weren’t to far ahead of the lone turkey and
it even seemed like they were actually waiting on it. They could have left it
if they wanted to, but it kept hobbling toward them, looking forward in the
direction of the group as if to say, “I am moving forward looking at what I
hope to obtain, even in my hobbled state.”
Sometimes we are like that hurt, hobbling
lone turkey; dealing with hurts and other things, falling behind everyone. We
have to push through and keep on walking forward “forgetting what is behind and
pressing toward the mark” (Phil 3:13-14). People aren’t going to stop their
movement forward for you; however, those with you will wait for you to get
close enough. If you continue moving and seeing others move, will push you to
keep going. When you see others ahead but close, just like that lone turkey, it
helps you to know that you are not alone. I believe that helped that lone
hobbling turkey because it still wasn’t alone as they waited until it caught
up. That lone hobbling turkey also was a little younger compared to the others
and it’s appearance hadn’t fully matured yet like the others, but it was
looking at what it wanted to become (like them) and it kept moving, hobbling
and all.
When Yahoshua was on the Mt. of
Transfiguration, His inner circle of 3 limmudim/disciples (Peter, James, John)
saw His glorified body as He changed in front of them. Those three got a glimpse
of what they were looking to obtain and the 11 saw it together again when
Yahoshua showed Himself to them after His resurrection. Sha’ul/Paul wasn’t
there but he saw Yahoshua when he was on his way to Damascus and he changed
from looking like tradition/worldly and started following after the
Mashiach/Messiah’s likeness. Sha’ul told us in 1 Cor 11:1 and Eph 5:1-2 that we
must “become imitators of him as he is of Yahoshua and to be imitators of Yah,
walking in His love.”
That turkey moved forward looking ahead because
it had something to fashion after and look forward to being like. As Yah’s creation,
we were made in His image/tselem #H6754:
image, outline, form, resemblance, representative figure and likeness/demuth #H1823: likeness, figure, resembling
who/which, son from blood of his father resembles his father (Gen 1:26). We
were made as Yah’s outline/representative figure and were His son from blood of
our Father Yah resembling Him. We got hobbled by sin and have not matured to
where we need to be yet, but there are those of us who are hobbling forward looking
at Yahoshua, hoping to look and be like Him (not be Him). We see others
matured/maturing walking forward and that gives us hope as we follow along. I
believe that turkey probably had a better understanding of Phil 4:13 than many
of us human beings. We too should strive like that turkey to move forward,
looking at those who have matured in The Ruach/The Spirit and above all,
looking to be like our Mashiach/Messiah.
In the movie “The Dark Tower,” the
gunslinger/Messiah outline, kept reciting a creed/saying passed down from father
to son/gunslinger to gunslinger, about remembering/forgetting the face of his
father based on his actions. The one who held on to the words of his father
would remember “his face” by his actions and the one who didn’t follow would forget
his father’s face and lose the power to act in authority. 1 John 2:6 says, “the
one saying they stay in Him ought to also walk like Him.”
I end this blog with a Scripture that
should wake us all up and put on back on the true path of our faith/emunah #H530. “See what love the Father
has given us that we should be called children of Elohim! For this reason the
world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved ones, now we are
children of Elohim, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we
know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He
is. And everyone having this expectation in Him cleanses himself, as He is
clean” (1 John 3:1-3).
