and he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the pit of despair,
out of the mud and the mire.
He set my feet on solid ground
and steadied me as I walked along.
He has given me a new song to sing,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see what he has done and be
amazed.
They will put their trust in the Lord.
Psalm 40:1-3
promises absolutely stunning
yet so often read without
really absorbing.
and I am guilty.
a shepherd turned king listened as
the Spirit whispered to his heart
words that would reverberate
through the centuries from
heart to heart to heart.
the Creator of galaxies and
planets and clouds and storms
wind and seasons and sunrises
and sunsets and mountains and
rivers and oceans and deserts and
animals and birds and flowers and
every heart and life ever lived,
ever lives and ever will live.
this God turns toward the
heart crying out and He
hears and listens!
and He acts, for love is a verb.
He lifts the crying heart from the pit.
and oh the variety of pits a beating heart
is prone to either falling into or being
thrown into or stumbling or jumping
or however the pit becomes home.
and some pits are home for
so long that they become
a strange type of comfort.
(this heart has spent far too much time
in the past calling pits home)
and He doesn't stop there!
no ~ He sets us on our feet
and steadies us much as a
parent steadies a baby learning to walk.
this is the infinite love of our Abba.
and He still doesn't stop there!
He gives the heart a song to sing ~
a new song of praise to the One
who rescues.
and the blessing comes
full circle when those who
are observing, whether directly
or indirectly, see the change in
the heart now free and are
amazed.
and many will believe.
and perhaps most astounding?
because of grace, no pit is too deep.
that He cannot reach.
no pit is too dark
that His light cannot pierce.
no stay is too long that He
cannot redeem.
and grace does not
keep count of how
often we end up
in either pits of
our own making
or those made
for us.
this is the beauty of grace.
it knows no boundaries.
it knows no limits.
all because of Jesus.
Jesus. only Jesus.
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