Stuck
July 16, 2009 – 8:57 am
Last night my wife and I had our son and daughter and their families over for dinner and a movie. After a meal of spareribs, sweet potatoes and zucchini (from my garden) and cake (decorated by our grandkids), we turned on the television.
The grandkids would have rather watched “Bolt” or even “Cinderella,” but instead I showed them my old movies from when I was a child on the mission field.
The movies included several scenes of our Dodge Power Wagon, a five-ton army style truck we used to get around on the roads and ox-cart trails of the 1950s in Bolivia. Some of the footage from the old 16-mm movie projector, now on DVD, showed us being stuck in the mud or in a river and using our winch to pull us out.
As I watched the old movies and remembered those days I thought about David in Psalm 40 where he wrote, “I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire.”
Back then when we got stuck in the mud and mire or river crossings we depended on the four-wheel drive of the Power Wagon and the sturdy winch on the front bumper with the steel hook and cable to get us out.
How much more can we depend on the Lord to pull us out of the slimy pit of sin or free us from the mud and mire of life’s problems that sometimes get us bogged down.
David goes on in this psalm and writes, “He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.”
Whatever you are going through today, be encouraged to realize when you turn to God He hears your cry. He loves you. He will answer. He will lift you up and get you out and set your feet on a rock. He will put a new song in your mouth and your heart.