| The Pit |
| A converted Chinese man once described his experiences in seeking deliverance from sin in this way: |
| “I was once in a horrible pit of sin, and for years I cried to Buddha for help; but he replied, ‘You must deaden your consciousness and imagine that you are not in the pit.’ |
| “Then I sought the help of Confucius, and his answer was, ‘You should have followed my teaching, and then you would never have fallen into the pit.’ |
| “At last I turned to Christ, and, with no word of rebuke, He descended into the pit, and, with His pierced hands, brought me up out of it; and we have been walking together ever since!” |
| Of the sufferings of the Lord Jesus, we read prophetically: |
| “I am counted with them that go down into the pit … Thou hast laid Me in the lowest pit … . Thou hast afflicted Me with all Thy waves” (Psalm 88:4, 6-7). |
| As a result, we can say, “He 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). |
| It is my prayer that every one reading this calendar has been delivered from the pit of sin. If not, “Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts” (Hebrews 3:15). |
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