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“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay” (Psalm 40:2).
“Thou hast laid Me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon Me, and Thou hast afflicted Me with all Thy waves” (Psalm 88:6-7).
Before we were saved, you and I were in a “horrible pit,’ struggling in “miry clay.” We were like people caught in quicksand, and we could not get out ourselves. That is a picture of what sin had done to us, and only the Lord Jesus could pull us out.
But in order to do this, He Himself had to go down into the pit. He had to be “made sin” for us, and to experience all the awful judgment of God against sin. In the Psalms, we find how the Lord felt when He had to endure all this, and the language used in this verse shows us how hard it was for Him to do this.
He recognized that it was the judgment of God against sin, for He says, “Thou hast afflicted Me with all Thy waves.” Waves speak of judgment, and all the judgment of a holy God against sin had to fall upon the Lord Jesus. What a debt we owe to Him!
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