A Song of Praise, Hallelujah!
(NKJV) Ps 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps.
3 He has put a new song in my mouth—
Praise to our God;
“He brought be out of the deep miry clay,
He set my feet on the solid rock to stay,
He put a song in my happy soul today
A song of praise hallelujah.”
I remember singing this hymn as a child, long before I knew what the lyrics meant.
David has written frequently of waiting on God, but there were times when God was not quick to answer. This time, however, in David’s thinking, God either bent down so that He could hear David’s cries, or at least turned His ear toward him and rescued him!
When I was a little girl, Tarzan movies were on TV every Saturday. During each movie, someone was trapped in quicksand.
I think the allure of sin is very much like quicksand. It may seem as though we can dabble in sin, but without warning find ourselves encased in something that serves only to draw us down to it’s very depths.
You see, on the surface the quicksand appeared to be solid, but it was only after taking that first step that it proved to be deadly. Just like quicksand, the bog of sin will drag us down unless we stay on firm footing with God.
Once we are pulled from the depths of sin, God gives us a new song, and we automatically respond with “hallelujah.”
May we sing the new song of redemption today, remembering all God has done for us.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
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