“The Pit of Destruction”

 “The Pit of Destruction”

 

I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.  He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.   Psalm 40:1,2

 

The first thing I want you to notice is, the fact that David says that he WAITED PATIENTLY, for the LORD, and the LORD inclined to David and HEARD David’s plea for HELP!  Sometimes, when we are loaded down with things that are too much for us to bear, and we call upon the LORD, for  His HELP, we expect Him to RUN to us and NOT DELAY, and we are very ADAMANT about Him coming to us, ANYTIME we want Him to come.  But He will NOT respond to our dilemma until we show some FAITH and TRUST in Him.

 

David could WAIT PATIENTLY, because he KNEW God already KNEW what was troubling him, and he was CONFIDENT that God would RESPOND to his cry, in His OWN TIME and His OWN WAY.  So, if David wanted God’s HELP, he was more than willing to WAIT.  David’s life was riddled with sins and he knew that his problems were due to those sins.  So, David, wholeheartedly sought the Lord God, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART, and he had CONFIDENCE in his Creator for his DELIVERANCE from the PIT of DESTRUCTION, which was of  David ‘s  own making.  

 

 And because of David’s FAITH and TRUST, GOD came, and as David puts it, “He drew me UP from the PIT of DESTRUCTION, OUT of the MIRY CLAY.  Even though David’s situation was of his own making, God KNEW David’s HEART, and He came to David’s RESCUE.  And He set David’s feet upon a ROCK, (firm, steady ground), making his steps SECURE.  Thus giving David, a NEW SONG of PRAISE and REJOICING to the ALMIGHTY GOD.  And from David’s situation; MANY will SEE it, and they will HONOR and TRUST the LORD GOD.

 

Are you in a PIT of DESTRUCTION? If you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to the LORD GOD, then you are in the PIT, and your SINS and REBELLION against the HOLY GOD, will bring the DESTRUCTION of your SOUL, and send you to an ETERNITY in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS, and NO WAY to ESCAPE, once you are there.  In order to ESCAPE HELL and to be RESCUED from the PIT of DESTRUCTION, you MUST FIRST, ADMIT that you are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, God’s ONLY SON, the LORD JESUS CHRIST.  You MUST BELIEVE that JESUS died for YOU, and that HE is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your sins to Him, and ask HIM for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your sinful life-style, and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT His Gift of SALVATION, and let Him lift you UP out of the PIT of DESTRUCTION, and SET your feet on the SOLID ROCK, which is the LORD JESUS CHRIST.  Do this NOW, while you still can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!