"An Audience of One"

"Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snares of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped." (Psalms 124:7)

  If you are looking for the victory lap to happen now, it is a little ways off, just over the horizon. Now it is time to run like the wind and to be excited for the chance to celebrate freedom; freedom that is unlike anything else we have ever known. I heard a brief part of a message yesterday, it was about God's promise to Solomon in 1 Kings 9, specifically the part in verse 4, where God refers to David, saying, "And if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments." There is really only One Judge that we need to be concerned about; and if we believe that He loves us and we put our trust in Him, we are safe! Why people don't get that, I can't really understand. There was no other way that He could have done what He did, but to send His Son to die in our place; it was His way of showing us just how much He loved us. If you stop and think about it, the same way that we are only needing to be concerned with One that looks upon us, Jesus too was demonstrating the same thing, only One that mattered! We can examine the opening verse of Isaiah 53, and get a clue of how this might appear, or not appear; because in the real sense, only the eyes of the Father matter; it really does not matter what anyone else might think! "To whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?" Well, if there is any other way to explain it, it was spoken of by Jesus to a guy named Nicodemus, saying, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3:3) We must enter into the whirlwind, if you will, to be awakened to the fact that we are like a bird trapped and in need of escape; and there is only one way that the snare is broken; there is only One that holds the key...

"And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen." (Genesis 22:13-14)