SCRIPTURE: Revelation 5:1-14

OBSERVATION/APPLICATION:
As a Christ-follower, I believe that Jesus is the ONLY WAY to restoring the universe, as well as my own life. This vision reminds me that there is no other one, and no other way, but the way of the Lamb. The scroll represents God’s plan for restoring the universe. The lion that is a lamb represents God’s way of grace, mercy, humility, servanthood, the way that evil is overcome (Romans 12:21). It appears as a way of weakness (a lamb that was slain), yet it is the way of triumph.

Being a Christ-follower is more than just accepting Jesus as my Saviour, it is accepting Him as the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE, i.e. the only true way to live in God’s world, and to follow Him in living that way. It may seem weak, it may likely lead to suffering, ridicule, self-denial, perhaps even death (like Jesus). But it is through this path of weakness that the seven-fold Spirit of God (Revelation 1:4, 3:1, 4:5, 5:6) is released, and people and the world are changed.

Am I confident, like John, even though evil seems to have the upper hand, that the way of humility, servanthood and grace are the best way to live, the only way to personal and universal victory? If so, that makes me a Christ-follower. Now I need to start living like it!

PRAYER:
Lord, thank You for this vision of the life of victory, and for the picture of the Lamb at the center, symbol of humility and victory! Help me to trust You, and to live like You, and to be willing to suffer with You, for the sake of the lost. Amen.