Have you ever been stuck in the mud? Did someone have to help you out? We hope you didn’t have to leave your shoes behind in the mud.
Sin is like mud; the more you struggle to get out of it on your own, the more you sink. The Lord Jesus is the only one who can save you from your sins. “He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock” (Psalm 40:22He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (Psalm 40:2)). If you know the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, why don’t you thank Him right now for saving you from the horrible pit of sin?
Carol and her daughter were enjoying the day, riding their horses along a beach in Australia. Suddenly Carol’s horse began to sink in an area of wet, soggy, muddy ground. If you were stuck in the mud, you probably did not weigh enough to sink very fast. However, a horse might weigh a thousand pounds, and that would make the sinking much faster! Carol quickly got off the horse so her weight wouldn’t add to the horse’s weight, while her daughter quickly called for help on her cell phone.
The horse was frightened, and the more it struggled, the deeper it sank in the mud. Carol and her daughter were also frightened for another reason other than that the horse was stuck in the mud. They knew that in a few hours the ocean tide would come in. If they couldn’t get the horse out of the mud before the tide came in, the horse would drown.
When the rescue workers arrived, they knew they had a real problem ahead of them. Seeing the horse struggling and frightened, they decided to give it an injection to calm it, and then they were able to dig the mud out from around the horse.
After three hours of hard, messy work, the rescue workers were able to fasten a sling under the horse. Then they used a tractor to slowly pull the horse out of the mud. Carol was so relieved that her horse was not hurt during the rescue and that it had been pulled out before the tide came in.
Have you really thought about what the Lord Jesus had to do to rescue sinners like us from that pit of sin? He knew we were hopeless and helpless to rescue ourselves. He was the only one who could lift us out of that pit. It was His deep and wonderful love for us that made Him willing to go to the cross to bear God’s punishment against sin, shedding His blood so that we could be washed clean from every sin. “The blood of Jesus Christ [God’s] Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)).
He is offering to rescue you from your pit of sins right now, if you will accept Him as your Saviour. Will you do that?
ML-12/16/2012