Good Morning All!!
Psalm 40:2; “He drew me up from the pit
of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my
steps secure.”
I was watching a movie the other
night. It was a war movie in which one scene
was shot during a rain soaked period of time.
Everything was wet and slippery.
The mud was everywhere and walking was tough and driving was even more
difficult. The enemy was about to attack
so as they tried to move all the equipment.
Of course, as the enemy is coming, one of the jeeps gets stuck and it
takes a heroic effort to save the day.
It seems that rescuing the hero at the last
minute is a common theme in many movies.
Sometimes the villain dies while the hero gets saved. The scene is frequent and the result is often
the same. This seems to occur because in
many ways; we recognize that we need to be rescued in our own lives.
Man has long known that he was in desperate
shape. We see this from his earliest
fears. We recognize it by our earliest
refusal to care about others. Our only
thought was to self survival and no thought to others; hence Cain and
Abel. This is partial why we tend to
show hatred to others; it is the fear that we need to be rescued and that there
isn’t enough help to go around. It is
this need to be rescued that causes us to build walls around ourselves to
protect ourselves and to feel a little bit secure. We separate ourselves from others in an
attempt to feel safe and secure in a slippery pit.
Martin Luther King once commented, “People
often hate each other because they fear each other, they fear each other
because they don’t each other, they don’t know each other because they cannot
communicate, they cannot communicate because they are separated.” This seems to
be an accurate description of our human existence. We fear so we hate.
There is no way for us to solve this
crisis. On our own, we can only
fail. We soon see that relying on our
own skills, our own power, on our own self sense of right and wrong; we soon
fall into the pit of destruction. That
slippery slope just leads down, pulling us in to the quagmire of total
despair. Our hope is lost, the light is
gone and we sink slowly out of sight.
Yet God, in his mercy, pulls us from the
miry bogs. He brings us from the pit of
complete despair. God pulls us out
through the blood of Jesus. He sets our
feet upon a rock. So we can face the
world with confidence and hope. There is
nothing that the world can throw at us that God cannot or will not pull us
through. The trials of this life are
just that; trials. Through them we can
see God’s hand protecting us and giving to us the blessed certainty of life
eternal.
Dear Father, you pull us from
the pit and give to us the certainty of hope.
Within you is our salvation. Keep
us safe within your arms and guard us with your tender mercy. Keep us aware that all things work for good
for those whom you love according to your purposes. Bless us with your peace. In Jesus’ precious name we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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