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Seeing Jesus in Psalm 124

Psalm 124

A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.

1 What if the Lord had not been on our side?

    Let all Israel repeat:

2 What if the Lord had not been on our side

    when people attacked us?

3 They would have swallowed us alive

    in their burning anger.

4 The waters would have engulfed us;

    a torrent would have overwhelmed us.

5 Yes, the raging waters of their fury

    would have overwhelmed our very lives.

6 Praise the Lord,

    who did not let their teeth tear us apart!

7 We escaped like a bird from a hunter’s trap.

    The trap is broken, and we are free!

8 Our help is from the Lord,

    who made heaven and earth.


Oh to be free! Free like a bird. Oh to have escaped the terrors of bondage. I knew immediately how to respond to Psalm 124. And as I write it I hear the voice of mockers who tell me I am a slave. They are right, but I have been a slave to two masters. I have been trapped by a lying, cheating, stealing master who sold me a fool’s gold bill of goods. I have been trapped and held hostage by sin. I was a fool. I did not listen. I thought I knew better. And then I was ashamed. I was dirty, I was stuck, I was trapped. I feel the anxiety of those days, years, moments of hell. Oh how being trapped, tortured and mocked as a prisoner hurt my soul. But to be made free. To have been rescued, to fly away to a height unimaginable, to discover I was a bird with wings made for flight soaring high above all things except my new loving care taker. I owe all to the One who made me truly free and I will gladly serve Him all my days.

When I speak to some who have known me for many years and they call me a puppet, I laugh. When they say that God has brainwashed me and I can’t think for myself, I rejoice. My brain needed washing. And my thoughts were dark and destructive because the lying, cheating, stealing, killing master who held me in deep bondage only told me lies. But what makes my new master so great, so freeing, so amazing is the TRUTH. He always tells me the truth. Even if I find it hard, even if I am embarrassed, even if it is too great for me, God tells me the truth. 

Sin, Satan, the devil and my flesh lie to me. 

But my God the Lord Jesus Christ my Saviour always tells me the truth. 

And so I am free. I can always go back to hate, fear, confusion and darkness. But I choose to stay in the light and to walk in freedom. I know my God has made all things and He teaches me and tells me how to be the best version of me I could ever be. I am so happy. I long to be what I was created to be, like a bird in my spirit. I am a free flying soul who gives glory to his God.

THANK YOU JESUS.

Thank you Jesus for setting me free.

I can’t say it enough, I was burdened, I was crushed, I was dead, I was a hateful, spiteful, deceptive, violent, out of control creature who despised myself. And I have of my own free will, because of stupidity and pride, gone right back to that cesspool of a life and thought pattern that trapped me, entombed me and used me for evil. Oh I am free to return but I choose to stay. I was not free to leave. I needed a rescuer. I needed a saviour. I need to be set free. And He did it.

Psalm 124 is my testimony. My story. My history. And I hear in its lines the same joy that thrills my soul.

I have no problem, no stretch or contorsion to see Jesus in this Psalm; I hear His voice and see Him as clearly as the noon day sun. If you are trapped in sin and you feel lost then let me encourage you there is hope. You can be free. Oh sinner, don't lose hope. Jesus can make you clean and free. Don't give up. Don't keep hiding your sin. Don't feel like there is no hope. It doesn't matter how many years you have been held in bondage, you can be free. You can be free from porn. You can be free from anger. You can be free from bitterness. You can be free from fear. You can be free from selfishness. You can be free from sexual addictions. You can be free from greed. You can be free from shame. You can be free from drugs or alcohol and addictions. You can be free from overworking. You can be free from laziness. You can be free from self harm. You can be free from others who manipulate your emotions. You can be free from worry. You can be free from doubt. You can be free from hopelessness. You can be free from lies. You can be free from darkness. You can be free from depression. You can be free from your past. You can be free from disobedience. You can be free from lust. You can be free from ignorance. You can be free from emptiness. You can be free from loneliness. You can be free from paranoia.

 

Handwritten Psalm 124, free at last free at last thank God almighty I'm free at last,
Handwritten Psalm 124

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