The Lion’s Call
Sitting in a froyo shop while my wife is blogging, and the thought came to me, “I haven’t blogged in some time.” What you are now reading is the simple fact that I decided to join her in the quest. It’s not that I haven’t had something to say, I have just been focusing my efforts on other endeavors, such as finishing my book, and preparing for different messages and ministry. However, some revelations have crossed my mind in which I thought, “I could blog this.” Introduced by the attempt to be candid, what you will read below is one of these such instances.
During worship recently, I felt like a lion in the way I was expressing myself. When we were in Africa in 2002, we went on a safari and saw a lion up close. He was by himself and began to call his pride. If you haven’t heard it, the sound is deep and guttural. The remarkable thing is that it can be heard up to seven miles away.
Suddenly the comparison became clear. We are lions and when we express a sound that comes from deep within us, from the very gut of our beings, it calls our pride. Our pride is the host of heaven, those of the realm of God. Our pride is God Himself. Our sound can be heard anywhere in the universe at any given time. It is not held back either by time nor eternity. Our sound is a testimony of Christ in us, the hope of glory. A very prophetic testament to the ages that shakes the heavens and the earth, just as the lion’s voice shakes the jungles and plains in which he exclaims his heart’s cry, the reunion with his pride.
Lions are strong. They don’t walk around the jungle in fear. Most of the time it seems that they are right there, strutting their stuff. This does not come from arrogance, but from an understanding of who they are. It comes from an understanding that in the animal kingdom, their position is at the top, all the other powers are below them.
And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. Ephesians 1:19-21 ESV
God has placed the immeasurable greatness of His power in us. This is the power that He worked in Christ while raising Him from the dead and seating Him at the highest possible place in heaven. This same power is our arsenal. This makes us who we are and sets us atop the food chain of spirits.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. vv 4-7
We find ourselves with Him in this place, and having within us that which God used to set Him in this place. We must see ourselves as who He has set us up to be in Christ. We must see ourselves as who we really are. Jesus is the Lion of Judah, and we are lions in His pride.
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