Do you realize how close the snare was to trapping you forever? Psalm 122-124

Psalms 124:7
" Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;
The snare is broken and we have escaped."

Do we actually know how close we have come to certain destruction?   Do we realize how close the lightening bolt has been to hit us?   And, yet, we have escaped.     Having never tried to trap a bird, we probably can't relate to the above Psalm.   In Biblical days the trapping of a bird for the purpose of consuming it or sacrificing it would have been common.  God gave us the animal world for our enjoyment and benefit of food.   Yet, in the trapping of the bird, the bird has little hope.    They simply go for the bait and then are caught in the snare.   Yet, the snare is exactly where God find us and releases us.   It is no accident the snare is broken.   The snare has been destroyed by the act of the cross through Christ.    Satan wishes to trap us.  Our flesh works against us to bind us in its internal snare.   Yet, Christ comes to our rescue and we escape.   We ought to be laid waste by the snares of ego, envy and many other self-inflicted wounds.   But, we are not.  We ought to be laid waste by the snares of Satan tempting us as he tempted Christ in the wilderness.   Yet, we are not.  God has broken the snare and set us free to be righteous in His sight.   "Our soul has escaped as a bird our of the snare!!"