FAITH CAPSULE: Horrible pit is a place of pain, deprivation, and aggravation.
Exodus 3:1-10
It is written, “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.” (Exodus 3:7-9) Taskmasters represented horrible pit in the life of the Israelites while they were in Egypt. Horrible pit is not a beautiful place to be; it is an unpleasant location. Horrible pit is a place of pain, deprivation, and aggravation. In your life are you experiencing a though time, a challenging time under any taskmaster? 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 horrible pit is to have shut one’s door of deliverance. The children of Israel opened up their door to deliverance when they lifted up their voice and cried to the Lord. Psalm 81:10 buttress, “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 crying out of the Israelites 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 are not always a demonstration of crying. God heard King David’s cry and he was brought out of the miry clay. Miry clay is an indication that the horrible pit could also be a place of stagnation constant falling, a place where stability is absent in man’s life. Is your world represent a horrible pit, evidently it is time to get on your knees in waiting by crying out loud. God in His goodness and mercy shall not deny your deliverance. He is a faithful God.
Prayer for today: Cry out and ask for the outstretch hand of God for your deliverance.