He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear and will trust in the Lord. How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust, Psalm 40:2-4a In Psalm 40 we find in a sense, our Lord’s own autobiography. He Himself tells us why He came to earth, what was accomplished, and what His experiences were. The Holy Spirit speaking through David, causes him to record his own life experiences while also expressing truths that were beyond his own experience.
These verses above are a description of resurrection.
“He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay” – In Hebrew it states, “out of a terrible experience, out of desolation, despair and death.”
Our life is often filled with these experiences. And every experience that is opposite to what God has designed for us is an experience of “death.” Not death to the body, but to the soul, to the spirit of man. Bitterness and shame and sorrow, hate and greed and loneliness, are all forms of death that come into our lives right now. That is what our Lord was experiencing. He understands these things because He has been through them Himself. Ultimately they led Him, as they will lead us, to that final moment when life ends and death is before us–the deep, dark desolation of death. But, He says, the Lord drew me out of that. He lifted me up from a pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
As I stated at the beginning, what a beautiful picture of resurrection. Today April 5th we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What He would love to see and experience is “your resurrection.” The resurrection where He picks you up out of the pit and places your feet on a firm rock. The resurrection where He places you into a whole new experience of life that God had designed from the beginning just for you. And when you allow Him to do this; like David you will say, “He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear and will trust in the Lord”. This means that those in your circle of life will see the change in you. They will see “life” as it was meant to be lived. Rather than the “pit” they will see the “mountain top” of living coming from you. They will know what has happened because you will tell them, “God put this song in my heart, He has lifted me up!!! Praise will flow from your lips as you experience the new life found only in Jesus Christ.
This my friends is what the Bible calls “Resurrected Living.” It doesn’t begin at the death of your body, but it begins at the death of your old way of living. That old way is exchanged for God’s new way. The Bible calls it being “born again.” It is a gift from God to you. Why not take it today? Make this your resurrection day.
