Brought Up from the Pit

I don’t know if you’ve had those moments. Those times when you’ve made a decision and the results have been catastrophic—at least have felt catastrophic.

The deep has closed around you. The weeds are wrapped around your head. The earth with its bars have shut tightly—forever.

I’ve been making mistakes that come with BIG feelings since I was very young. (I still regret that incident with the markers in preschool.)

I can’t number the times I’ve felt devastated, the number of mistakes that I’ve replayed in my head wondering, “What was I thinking?” and “How did it come to this?” and “I will NEVER make it through.”

What I do remember clearly is how God pulled me out of the pit every time.

“This is it, God,” I’d say. “I can’t survive this. I can’t breathe. Please, just this once, let me turn back the clock and try a different answer, a different action.”

But He just shakes His head and wraps me in His arms.

A few days, a few weeks, a few months, a few years later... I am a new person. A person with scar tissue and stretch marks. A person who lost something, learned something, and became someone just a little wiser, a little sharper for my salvation and for His purpose.

Behold, He makes all things new again and again.

Just a small reminder if you're in the pit now, He's still there and He will pull you through.