Salvation awaits, no matter how pitiful your situation

Not a pretty smell!

Well, it is the image of a cess-pit that I desire you keep in mind as I share how God will deliver you from a pitiful situation.

Psalms 40: 1-3

1 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

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.

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

In Psalms 40, the Psalmist David reflected on a time when he was in a pit. The pit was dark, noisy, and frightening. To make matters worse, David spoke about being in the miry clay. The miry clay is at the bottom of the pit,a place with no solid foundation.

In other words, the miry clay and the pit offered no security and no stability.

Yet, David testified that God had brought him out of a pit. David even shared that the Messiah to come (whom you know to be Jesus) would also find Himself in a pit situation.  Yet, He too would experience the rescuing power of God. Both David and the Messiah testified that while in a pit it was not the time to give up on God. No, that was the time to wait. 

Often, when you experience horrible situations, the last thing you want to do is wait for things to get worse. So don’t! Wait for God to step into your worse and make a winner out of you while you are in the midst of it all.

What you must accept is that just as the rain falls on the just and the unjust, so do the calamities of life. Yet, there is a comfort in knowing that your Heavenly Father cares and will come and see about you.

Here is the advice that David gives you in order that you can arise triumphantly out of your pit and miry clay, having the victory in your mouth, so that you may testify to someone else.

Psalms 40:15-17

15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

What can you learn from these verses?

1. Verse 15: Understand fully that there will be those who want to bring you to shame.

2. Verse 16: In spite of verse 15, you must choose to rejoice.

3. Verse 16: In the midst of your pit, thank God for salvation, and continually magnify the Lord Jesus Christ.

4. Verse 17: Understand that your job is to wait on God. Do not give up. Even if God takes longer than you expected.

In this year, 2011, life will bring what it will bring, but if you can trust God to come through for you, you will see this year successfully through. And when you share your latest testimony, God will place a new song of thanksgiving in your mouth for all to hear.  Respice finem.