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| Raccoons becoming Human? |
Raccoons are stimulating animals. Raccoons are infatuated with shiny objects. Once raccoons get them in their hands, they do not let loose. It is easy to capture them using a simple trap. Small enough for their hand to reach in, but too small for them to pull their hand back out with their tiny fist clenched with their shiny idol, they coveted.
This leaves me to wonder, do we have their characteristics? Raccoons are focused creatures, but also it is their weakness. Sometimes we become so focused on a problem we forget to step outside the forest to see the single tree. Shiny objects can be unforgiving because someone has hurt us, or we stay in the victim mode and not become a survivor, and occasionally we are resistant to change that might improve us.
When raccoons are ensnared they become ferocious. This can be in terms of being captured by intoxicating beverages and the alcoholic state turns one mean and abusive. Entrapment can feel like being imprisoned in a marriage where love has lost its way due to violence. Your hands are caught in the trap of excessive debt. Maybe it is any past abuse that entangles you as the victim and not the survivor. Some animals will chew off their leg to be set free, but then they die because of the open wounds. Feel depressed with the absence of motivation to do anything? Does your body feel washed-out and sick all the time? These are the symptoms of being trapped like a raccoon. The bitterness of life becomes the rabies that affects everyone who crosses the path of the one entrapped.
David described it in Psalms as his bones wasted away and his strength was sapped as if he was in the heat of summer (Ps. 32:3, 4). I know you are probably wondering why even go to the bible, since some say it is a book of fairy tales, but I need your help. I was proven wrong and the bible is not fictional based stories to believe in a god that we have become angry at. I have been where you are. I have been entrapped and felt like David being wasted away.
One thing I have learned is that when the thorns of this life asphyxiates me, I do not want to listen to God, and I stay embittered (Mark 4:18-20). I had to understand to trust and to believe that Christ is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6). His Spirit gives life (John 6:63). How is this done? It is amazing to read in Exodus 34:28 Moses was with God for forty days and nights without eating bread or drinking water. God provides sustaining life. No man can survive without water more than 5 days. He is the living water (John 4).
The key is that God provides life. Are there problems? Yes! What is the difference then? The difference is that through Him, we have freedom as long as we lose our shiny objects and not depend on the world because he provides eternal life (John 12:25). I did not trust myself or anyone when I was entrapped and the only way out was up. Trusting in Him was the biggest thing I could have ever done. Therefore, are you a Raccuman? I can help get rid of the black eyes that want to cling to what we thought was best. Let me know if I can help you.
