FAITH CAPSULE:  Crying is not a sign of weakness.

Exodus 3:1-10

A horrible pit is a place of pain, deprivation, and aggravation.
A horrible pit is not a place to desire in any way.
Living in a situation not living a life of sacrifice for God can be referred to as a horrible pit. 
Exodus 3:7-9 records, “And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.”  
Living under taskmasters represents horrible pits in the lives of the Israelites while they were in Egypt. 
The horrible pit is not a beautiful place to be; it is an unpleasant location. A horrible pit is a place of pain, deprivation, and aggravation. 
The horrible pit is not a place for a believer to be quiet but to cry out unto God. 
To be quiet in the place of the horrible pit is to have shut up the door of deliverance. 
The children of Israel were not quiet but lifted their voices and cried to the Lord. 
Psalm 81:10 buttresses, “I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”
The cry of the children of Israel did not find a deaf ear because the Lord inclined His ear to their cry and extended His hand of deliverance through His servant Moses. 
Just as the children of Israel were in the horrible pit and were able to receive deliverance, so was King David in the horrible pit. 
King David also cried to the Lord God for his deliverance.
King David testified, “I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps.” (Psalm 40:1-2) 
Crying is not a sign of weakness, and tears running down the cheeks are not always a demonstration of crying. 
God heard the cry of King David to bring him out of the miry clay. 
Miry clay in the horrible pit testifies to be a place of stagnation, constant falling, with no life of stability. 
Any experience of a horrible pit in your life?
Cry out loud to God for His goodness and mercy to provoke deliverance from what represents a horrible pit in your life.

Prayer for today: Cry out and ask for the outstretched hand of God for your deliverance.