Have you experienced love in the horrible pit?

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

“I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 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” (Psalm 40:1-2).

These are words of King David whom God called “a man after his own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14). In this statement David pictures himself waiting patiently for the Lord at the bottom of death’s horrible pit.

God had told Adam and Eve that, if they ate the fruit He had forbidden, they would die.

“…in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:17).

They ate it and died. Since that grievous fall, each person, including David, has been born into this horrible pit of spiritual death.

But wait! If King David lay dead at the bottom of this spiritual death pit, how could he claim to be waiting patiently? Do dead men exercise patience? Have you ever thought of a corpse in a coffin as patiently waiting while lying there? No! The corpse cannot comprehend or desire anything! God’s life-giving breath had awakened David’s spirit to enable such yearning after God. The yearning was so great that he cried out for deliverance. As he yearned and cried for God from the bottom of this horrible pit, God, in love, reached down and rescued him. He set his spiritual feet upon the solid rock of His Salvation.

Who is this Rock of God’s Salvation? The apostle Paul makes it clear that, then as now, it was God the Son, Jesus Christ the Lord! Speaking of ancient Israelites he wrote,

“…they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:4).

There is no other Rock of Salvation.

“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11).

He gave Himself as a blood sacrifice to “save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

Dear reader: If God has awakened and burdened your dead heart to be heavy laden over sin, He invites you, in love, to cry out to Him for His rescue from sin and death.

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).

 

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