One night the Lord gave me a dream in which I was being held captive by someone in a foreign land who spoke a language I did not understand. My captor held in his hand a piece of paper with something written on it that he had held against me. Because it was written in a foreign tongue I did not understand (see Isaiah 28:11) I could not defend myself and he seemed to be very frustrated and angry with me for my lack of response. What was written on the paper seemed to give him the power to detain me, so I could not leave.
At the top of this same piece of paper was a sickle emblem. This represented a place of servitude I was being placed under, or I was being held captive to the things of the past. But it turns out, I did have a choice! For from the right side of us both, in walked a mediator in the form of a man, Who was Jesus, the living Christ.
Jesus did however understand the man’s language and the words written on the paper, but He also had complete power and authority over them. After speaking a few words to the man holding the piece of paper; Jesus did not beckon to me or even look in my direction, but quietly turned and walked away in the same direction from which He had come.
When Jesus spoke to the situation on the paper that the man had been holding, the man seemed very annoyed that he could no longer detain me, but could do nothing about it. I suddenly realized at that moment that I was now free to go but that it was my choice whether or not to follow Jesus. I quickly decided to hurry after Jesus!
“He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor, therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him, and His own righteousness, it sustained Him. For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.” — Isaiah 59:16 & 17
“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” — 1 Timothy 2:5 & 6
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” — Romans 8:1 – 4
