The Day of New Beginnings

Let Not the Eunuch Say I Am a Dry Tree

 

Isa. 56:
1 ¶  Thus says the LORD, "Preserve justice and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come And My righteousness to be revealed.
2  "How blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who takes hold of it; Who keeps from profaning the sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil."
3 ¶  Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely separate me from His people." Nor let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."
4  For thus says the LORD, "To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,
5  To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.
6  "Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD, To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath And holds fast My covenant;
7  Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples."
 
Verse three says, “Let not the eunuch say, ‘”Behold, I am a dry tree.”’ In the natural a eunuch is one that has been castrated. He is incapable of reproducing. But to the eunuch who chooses what pleases the Lord, there is a promise of great fruitfulness. When God says He will give in His house and within His walls a memorial, He is saying within the realm of His presence He will grant a miraculous progeny. “I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.”  How can a eunuch be granted an everlasting name that will not be cut off? There are mystical realities being spoken here. 
 
Mat. 19:12:
"For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it."
 
There are different ways by which a man becomes a eunuch. As Jesus said, some are born that way, others are made that way by men, yet others make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of God. Here is the mystical interpretation of Isa. 56. Verse six says, “Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD…” There is a way we join ourselves to the Lord to minister to Him. Something is created in us, a drive, to minister to Him personally. It’s about loving the name of the Lord. God so works in us to create a determination to be wholly His. This means a dedication to becoming a eunuch. It’s refusing anything of our Adamic nature’s capacity to reproduce. We become dry trees in the sense that only His life in us gives us meaning or purpose. We cut off all the things that feed and gratify the soul/flesh realm in us. This is what it means to break bonds. We will only be joined to the Lord. 
 
Coming to the place of being a eunuch for the kingdom of God is no easy task. It takes a work of grace in our lives. We must die to many things to live unto Him. But God is granting to His sons a capacity to really know Him. He is granting a capability to stand as overcomers. When a baby chick comes into the world, it must peck through the shell that protected it while it grew. The mother hen does not help the chick break through the shell. If she did, it would eventually kill the baby chick because it would not have the strength to survive in the world. Pecking its way through the shell strengthens it to live out in the world. So too, God allows us to struggle with many things that don’t seem to have any answers. He disappears on us, not giving any discernable help at all. We must peck through the energies of the soul/flesh realm in us. Then we will have the strength to live in God’s world. We must become those eunuchs separated unto Him if we want to live.
 
To these self inflicted eunuchs of the kingdom comes the great promise:“Even those I will bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer.” God’s holy mountain is Zion, the spiritual realm of His presence. When we become barren and incapable of producing apart from God, then we will know and experience the great mystery of kingdom fruitfulness. We will become joyful in His house of prayer. We will obtain a name better than sons or daughters, and be grafted into an everlasting lineage that will not be cut off. We will find the miracle of progeny operating in us. We become the progenitors of a new age dawning in the earth. 
 
Isa. 49:
8 ¶  "Lift up your eyes and look around; All of them gather together, they come to you. As I live," declares the LORD, "You will surely put on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride.
19  "For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land— Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.
20  "The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears, ‘The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.’
21  "Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was left alone; From where did these come?’"
22  Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations And set up My standard to the peoples; And they will bring your sons in their bosom, And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.
23  "Kings will be your guardians, And their princesses your nurses. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth And lick the dust of your feet; And you will know that I am the LORD; Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.