Daily Delight Devotional – Monday, November 18, 2024

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 40:2, KJV

Being delivered from the pit, actually, the Psalmist uses two figures of speech here. David talks about a pit — a hole in the ground. The experience he went through was like being in a big pit and being unable to get out. Joseph was thrown into a pit by his brothers.

Pits are an uncomfortable place that confines and restricts your movement. It is a very narrow place which restricts your life greatly. Pits are dark. The further you go down in the well, the darker it gets. It gets so dark you could hardly see to work.

The pit of sin is also a place of darkness. Pits are impossible to get out of without someone to help. Joseph’s brothers had to help him get out of the pit. The pit of sin was the same until Jesus extended to us the rope of salvation. We could never have gotten out of the pit.

The way out of the pit is to cry to the Lord and get the result of the cry (Psalm 40:2). God wants to deliver you from the pit of sin or the pit of bondage. Come out from the pit. Jesus died on the cross to rescue you from the pit. Will you accept his deliverance today?

Insight: When a person is living in a hole in the ground, he may sing but his songs are sad songs. However, when you get out of the pit, you feel like jumping, singing, and dancing.

Prayer: Father, deliver my life from any form of pits in the name of Jesus.

Further Bible Reading: Psalm 40:1-3
Daily Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 28:1-13