His Healing Power by Lilian B. Yeomans; Lilian Yeomans

Author:Lilian B. Yeomans; Lilian Yeomans
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Body, Prayer & Spiritual, Christian Life, General, Religion, Spiritual Healing, Healing, Mind & Spirit, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9781577948193
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 2006-09-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

A Song Of Resurrection

He brought me up...out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth. (Ps. 40:2,3).

Here we find a man crying to God out of “a horrible pit.”

A pit of horrors, indeed, for the original implies a place of “chaos, confusion, conflict, noise, tumult, dimness, darkness, disorder, despair, death, and destruction.” Rotherham translates it “the destroying pit,” so all in it are doomed by the mere fact that they are there.

How did this man, who is typical of every man who has ever lived from Adam down, get there? Did God, who made him, put him there? Never. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. (Gen. 2:8,9).

I have gazed enraptured at gardens made by human hands, which were so beautiful that they took my breath away; but what must have been the exquisite loveliness of this garden planted by the divine hand that put the shine into the stars, the majesty into the mountains, the sacred beauty into the dawn, the glory into the sunset, and tinted the petal of the rose!

Man had only to dwell there amidst noble trees, emerald green turf, gorgeous blossoms, flashing fountains, singing birds, beautiful, sleek animals, who fawned on him as their God-given head and enjoy uninterrupted communion and fellowship with the author of all this beauty, the Creator of the universe and the bestower of every good and perfect gift.

Whence, then, the pit? It was Satan, that malign and mysterious being, once the “anointed cherub...upon the holy mountain of God” in the mineral Eden of Ezekiel 28, with every precious stone for his covering, whose heart was lifted up because of his beauty and who corrupted his wisdom by reason of his brightness, who dug the pit of sin —rebellion against divine authority—and lured our first parents into his trap.

The bait was the knowledge of good and evil. The prize was won but at what a cost! For Adam and Eve fell into the pit; and all their progeny, from that day to this, were born there. And from the pit there is no human way of escape.

Men have sought out many inventions, embellished their pit dwellings with magnificent works of art, perfected systems of philosophy, even erected retaining walls, and laid down paving stones of ethical culture to prevent people from sinking deeper in the mire; but no man has ever been able to find a way out. In other words, with all the genius manifested by pit dwellers, there is no power in the pit to extricate anyone from its depths.

And when all is said and done, in spite of scientific discoveries, rapid transportation on earth and sea and in the sky, radio, and other wonders, the pit is the pit still; and it is a horrible pit; the Bible says so.

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