"Delivered in Power"

"Save me from the lion's mouth: for Thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorn." (Psalms 22:21) Just as we might need to be delivered from something horrific and terrible, yet God allows us to go through it; He does so to bring us to the other side of that ordeal with a greater and closer walk in Him; in doing so, He is demonstrating the power available in Him that is far more important than the outcome had there been nothing suffered. In other words; sometimes the trial and tribulation is what is needed to gain strength and courage in God's ability, even though He might not have demonstrated that ability in saving us from that trial. Take what happened to Jesus, and how He was put to death upon the cross; He suffered more than anyone should have suffered, yet the Father spared not anything from being done to Him for the sake of what was being accomplished upon that cross. The way I see the what and the why that was being displayed in the horrific death that Jesus suffered, is just an illustration of the hideousness of our sin, and the sins that we are capable of carrying out against one another. The "lion's mouth" that is being spoken of is that which represents the devil and the fierce powers of evil, including death and destruction, and everything that is associated with sin, or has it's origin in sin. Not only did Jesus bare my sins upon that cross, but He also took the beating and suffered the death that I should have, and in my place He suffered and died, that I would be delivered from the punishment of sin, because there must be a punishment for sin; for God is just and holy, and He does not allow sin to go unpunished. That said; in His suffering, Jesus took on all of the evil and powers of darkness, that He might be declared the victor in all and through all; even in that of the grave and death, He was deemed the victor over Hell and all the power that it had to hold Him down, that nothing was left undone. We can take great courage in this, because there is nothing, absolutely nothing that we can go through or suffer in that Jesus is not the victor over; especially death and the power of the grave! The power that was demonstrated in His resurrection from the grave was much more powerful than that which would have been demonstrated had the Father delivered Him from the cross; not to mention all that He suffered and died for, and the great power of the cross upon which He died. What that cross represented was my death that I should have died, and my sins that were being judged and punished upon the Creator of the world; that His creation should be set free from the bondage and the judgement of sin, for ever and ever... "And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him on His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all." (Ephesians 1:19-23)