“I didn’t know the fear of the Lord until I looked a lion in the eyes” by Cheryl Case

From Cheryl's photos

*Click on photo below to see a video of the lions

From Cheryl's photos

Within the first 10 minutes our night drive, we saw a leopard…up close…one of the most rare things…locals go their whole lives never seeing them. And an hour later…we saw a pack of
lions…4 male lions, that never travel that way…they were laying in
the road; and unless you were driving with a man with a rifle, like we
were…that is a different situation.
And that is when it hit me, when the lion came up and started walking
towards us…my whole body got tense…I was afraid…but unlike ever
before. The lion just locked eyes with me, with us…he just walked
right by us and then circled around our car….all four…one by
one…they circled us. Our driver just sat there and I could barely
look up as they surrounded us…some people were taking pictures…but
I was just riveted. They stayed with us for 30 minutes.
But that was the fear and the Lord, I was tense first and then was
forced to accept that I was 100% at the mercy of the lion…I mean a
million quotes about Aslan rushed through my mind, and it really made
sense why they refer to Jesus as the lion of Judah…there is
something so elegant, graceful, majestic and absolutely frightening
about the lion…as cliche as it sounds…

I didn’t know the fear of the Lord
until I looked a lion in the eyes

…and watch it decide it was not going to pounce on me. It was intense…the knots that came in my
stomach and were released were not like something I had ever felt…it
was close to standing at the edge of a cliff knowing if you slipped it
would be over…but it was not like facing death…it was just facing
helplessness…100% being wrapped in the mercy of something out of
your control.