Freedom From the Pit

Scripture: 
Psalm 40:2

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

 

Have you ever gotten your car stuck in the mud? Sometimes the more you try to get out, the deeper you sink, spinning your wheels, slinging mud all over your car, only to sink deeper still. Instead of spinning your wheels in the same mud you are trapped in, you have to find a board, or large rock, something solid and sturdy to stick under your tires and then you can easily escape the muddy pit you were stuck in.

 

I was thinking today that this is how my life was before I found the way out of my sin, which is Jesus.  He is our rock, and our salvation.  I was stuck in an horrible pit of sin, spinning my wheels in the miry clay, only to sink deeper still.  The more miserable I became, the faster I would spin my wheels and the effects of sin on my life was like the mud being slung all over the place.  Then, someone told me about Jesus!  He became my solid foundation, my rock.  It was like I put his word and his promises under my tires and easily made my way out of that pit, onto a solid and firm foundation, where I could move forward with my life.

Like the Psalmist, He also brought me up out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings!