Get Out of That Pit: Straight Talk About God's Deliverance by Beth Moore

Author:Beth Moore
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Breakthrough, Deliverance
ISBN: 9780785289739
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2009-08-10T22:00:00+00:00

he turned to me and heard my cry.

He lifted me out of the slimy pit,

out of the mud and mire;

he set my feet on a rock

and gave me a firm place to stand.

(Psalm 40:1–2)

In this passage, the pit-dweller’s deliverance began with a cry. I’m not talking about tears. Yes, weeping may accompany this cry, but tears alone mean little. You’ve probably heard the saying: “Sentimentality is no indication of a warm heart. Nothing weeps more copiously than a chunk of ice.” We can cry our eyes out over the pain of our situation and still refuse to change. Those kinds of tears often flow from our desperation for God to change and our frustration that He won’t. If you’re like me, sometimes you want Him to bend the rules for you and bless your disobedience or half-heartedness. Who doesn’t want a shortcut? Don’t we all want God to bless our marginal cooperation with mammoth results? A powerful anointing? A stunning harvest? An entirely altered family life? A final farewell to addiction?

His refusal to bend to our will may at first seem uncompassionate in light of all we’ve endured, but He’s pushing for the best thing that will ever happen to us. God will never be codependent with you. He will never pat your broken back and say, “Who could blame you for all of this?” He wants you up on your feet, living abundantly, profoundly, effectively.

And it all begins with a cry. The kind the psalmist was talking about erupts from the deepest part of a person’s soul as if his or her life depends on it. This cry from the depths makes its first good use of the pit, aiming the petition straight up those narrow walls to the throne of God as if shot like fireworks from the cylinder of a Roman candle. No random ear will do for this crier. He is aiming at the One who made all things, rules all things, and can change all things. The One who says nothing is impossible.

You will be hard pressed to find a more repetitive concept in Scripture than God’s intervention coming as a direct response to someone crying out. Here are a few samples pulled like fish from a sea full of them:

“For he will deliver the needy who cry out” (Psalm 72:12).

“But he took note of their distress / when he heard their cry; for their sake he remembered his covenant / and out of his great love he relented” (Psalm 106:44–45).

“The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed / a stronghold in times of trouble . . . he does not ignore the cry of the affl icted” (Psalm 9:9, 12).

“I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; / he heard my cry for mercy. / Because he turned his ear to me, / I will call on him as long as I live” (Psalm 116:1–2).

“To the Lord I cry aloud, / and he answers me from his holy hill” (Psalm 3:4).

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