  Psalm 40 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 1 I waited patiently for the LORD ; he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 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. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD . Whenever I do something I know is not pleasing to God, I feel slimy all over, dirty, unclean.Even after I ask for forgiveness, the dirty feeling doesn't go away. There are plenty of times when I don't live at all. When King David talks about a slimy pit, it sort of got me thinking about how i often walk and fall into that pit on purpose. How I wave away the verses the Holy Spirit gives me to resist temptation, how i act like i like being in that pit. It's like being drunk, or on drugs, when your mind tells you its bad for you but your body just wants to enjoy it. In mud you're not going anywhere. You're just going to slip and fall, and get dirty, and sick, and die.
You just die. The Lord can lift you up, and put you on solid rock. Maybe it's worth giving up the cool, pleasant sensation of the mud, the thrill it gives you, for the hard, cold rock, which will eventually lead you to a safe refuge. Our Father has His hand out to us, to pull us out of the pit. Will we take it? Because Psalm 40 says that what's waiting for us up there, on solid ground, is so good we will have a new song in our hearts, to worship Him, love Him, and tell others about Him.
God can turn our bad circumstances into something worthwhile. Like when we're in trouble, and we cry out to Him for help, and He helps us...and someone else gets touched by it too. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Signing off, Jenna 
