Out of a Horrible Pit

     One of the news stories in the past few months that I've been following is the story about those Chilean miners that were trapped underground. It's pretty crazy, isn't it? Stuck under there for days on end before anyone even knew if they were alive, and then - we found out that they WERE still alive. That in itself is a miracle. But then to survive for two months down there, and come out of it with so few physical injuries, safely delivered to their families again - well, that's just the mercy of God. It's pretty amazing.

 

     The thought popped into my head today that we're all sort of like those miners. We were stuck, with absolutely no way out, unless God intervened. We were trapped in the awful mine of our own sin, and it caved in on us. But God . . . those are two of the sweetest words in the whole Bible, I think. But God. He saw our desperate need and rescued us. Psalm 40:2 says "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." I don't know about you, but seeing those women crying and hugging their husbands again really made this verse come alive for me. He really has brought me up out of a horrible pit. I'm really thankful to be a Christian.

Leah