"Voyage Captain"

"Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty." (Psalms 27:12) Yes, it is true, Jesus is the Captain of our soul; but greater than that, Jesus has experience on these treacherous waters, and having maneuvered the fiercest storm there ever was, we can rest assure that He will get us through to the other side! Looking at this verse from a little different angle, we can see how this verse fits nicely to the persecution and the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ; as a matter of fact, from the very beginning, and with God's judgement against the serpent in the Garden, this was planned out with God saying, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" (Genesis 3:15). If you notice, this verse does not say, "Deliver me not over to mine enemies", because is was the intention of the Lord to be delivered over to His enemies; but to be delivered over to the will of His enemies, that's a whole separate matter! Their will was to shut Him up, to make Him no longer a force to be reckoned with, and to try and prove that He was not who He said that He was; all of which they failed to do; as a matter of fact, the will of His enemies were crushed His Resurrection, Ascension, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon His believers! The greatest voyage ever, our Captain not only charted it, and sailed it Himself, He controlled the very waters that He sailed!!! All of it; every last detail of His life; from His birth, all the way through His life, and even in His sufferings, He was in complete control of all that happened; the will of His enemies was never an issue, because His will was being played out throughout His life and even in His death! If ever we needed reassurance of God's ability to take a bad situation and turn it to good, what better proof do we have than the Captain of our souls? " Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." (Hebrews 12:1-3)