Lifted from the pit
My wife and I recently built a new house this past summer. As the house was nearing completion, I noticed something moving in our sewer sump. When I turned on the lights, I noticed two sets of eyes staring at me. Apparently, two small frogs had entered our sump during the summer floods. I reached down, picked up the frogs from the pit and noticed they were skin and bones, which made them easy to catch. I decided to take them to a nearby wetland and they promptly swam off among the cattails.
As I walked back to our house, God gently spoke to my heart. Just like these frogs, God reaches out to us with his infinite mercy and love. We don’t earn or deserve his grace, but he lavishes his love on us in ways beyond our imagination or understanding.
We hold on to things of this world as if they will somehow save us. Our souls become weak and spiritually empty. We cry out to God and he reaches out his hands from heaven to lead us home. Corrie ten Boom, who survived Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII said, “There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.” During this Advent season, let us cry out to God in our emptiness and despair. He always hears the cries of the poor and will gently lift us out of the pit and bring us home.
Mike Gannon
Milford, Iowa
