I have been a pit dweller on several occasions and know the only hope and rope has been our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sometimes I don’t notice when others are in a pit. How about you? We seem to get so busy “doing” church and pointing fingers, that we forget to point to Christ to help others out of life’s pit. Come on now—let’s not just go to or do church; let’s be the church and help others find the way out of life’s pit!

I hope you’ll be encouraged to call out to JESUS when you find yourself in the pits. You’re going to fall into one from time to time. The choice to stay in it is up to you.

“To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit” (Psalm 28:1 ESV).

“I waited patiently for the LORD to help me, and He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on

solid ground and steadied me as I walked along” (Psalm 40: 1-2).

Lord, I thank you for pulling my up when I fall. Thank you for forgiveness, provision, and the hope and rope—Jesus Christ, in whose name I pray. Amen.

Just Thinkin’,

Kathy

P.S. There’s a poem that has been circulating from an adaptation of Kenneth Filkins’ “The Wittenburg Door.” I thought I would share it with you because even for Christians, sometimes we fall in a pit.

A man fell into a pit and called for help.

A SUBJECTIVE person came along and said:

I FEEL for you down there!

An OBJECTIVE person came along and said:

It’s logical that someone would fall down there.

A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST came by and said:

You only think you are in the pit.

A PHARISEE said:

Only bad people would fall in a pit.

A FUNDAMENTALIST said:

You deserve your pit.

CONFUCIOUS said:

If you would have listened to me, you would not have fallen into that pit.

BUDDHA said:

Your pit is only a state of mind.

A REALIST said:

That’s a pit.

A SCIENTIST said:

I calculated the force necessary (lbs./sq.in.) to get him out of the pit.

A GEOLOGIST said:

I told him how to appreciate the rock strata in the pit.

AN EVOLUTIONIST said:

He is going to die in the pit, so he can’t produce any pit-falling offspring.

A CHARISMATIC said:

Just confess that you are not in the pit!

An OPTIMIST said:

Things could be worse.

A PESSIMIST said:

Things are going to get worse.

JESUS, seeing the man,

took him by the hand and lifted him out of the pit.  —submitted by Kathy Lonsinger, Speaker and Founder A Gentle Answer Ministries