Look - A Door Open/Look - a Lion - Look - THE LION is THE LAMB

Wow, this study, not my first in Revelation, but my first in going deep, my first in being this hungry and thirsty to KNOW Him, whom I have believed. I was still revelling in Chap 3 and DJ's great analogy of the human experience of waterskiing in relation to the Christian life. The boat, the rope, the skier skimming along the surface of that glorious lake feeling like "could anything top this", many times I have experienced this and almost always I say, "Oh, Father, thank you for this moment, it is truly glorious" and then the fall. Arrrrumphh, life sucks, where's God when I need Him, why did this happen to ME" as the fall disconnects us from the joy and the glory of a mountaintop experience. And then the rope, always the rope thrown to reconnect us to the real Power Source. As I shared with Reid about this wonderful visual, there is another important member of this Triunatique (like Nautique but with Trinity...Trinunatique), the Observer. The Father may be in the Driver's Seat, the Holy Spirit has been given to us, sent as the rope to us to stay connected, BUT, the Observer, sees us fall, and up goes His Banner to show that we are His, and He's coming back to get us. That banner tells everyone else out there on the water boating about, "HE'S MINE/SHE'S MINE, LOOK, BE AWARE, THE ONE OUT THERE IS MINE, AND I'M COMING BACK FOR THEM". Look up, skier, be alert, here comes the rope, reach out, connect, and hold on, READY? And we all yell.................READY!!!!!!!!

-Rory