Today’s Living Word — 06‑20‑26

Love Lifted Me!

Today’s Living Word comes from Ps 40:2 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; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the LORD.

 

I don’t know what horrible pit David was in when he wrote this Psalm, but I know the horrible pit I was in when Jesus rescued me!

 

I grew up along the lower Fox River in the southern part of Wisconsin and I experienced mire first hand. Thankfully we had a swimming hole and swam in it, just about every day in the summer. It was the only place that didn’t have shin deep muck. When any of us would go beyond the swimming hole we learned all about mire.

 

It sucks you in, and makes it very difficult to walk. 

 

Muck, or mire, is like sin.  It sucks you in and makes it very difficult to walk (make that live) as the Lord intended.

For years I was mired in the terrible muck of alcohol abuse.  But then, after my second OWI ticket I hit bottom, and Jesus was there to lift me out of the miry clay.  His Word (the Bible) now ordered my steps, He gave me a new song to sing, and I hope that the example of what He did in my life will lead others (who have seen the fore and after version of Duane) to Christ.

 

If He could save me, there is hope for all! Oh, and that new song? How about Kenny Rogers singing” Love Lifted Me? Google it and give it a listen!

 

I'll write myself a simple song
Get the whole world to sing along
I'll call it a love song for you
And who knows
I'm liable to take a song from the Bible
And then when I'm through, I'll just sing

Love lifted me, love lifted me
When nothing else would do
You know, love lifted me

Everybody's looking for a way
To say something nobody said
But that's hard to do
They're searching their mind
Trying to find the one of a kind way
That they could say something new and I just say

Love lifted me, love lifted me
When I was down and out
You know, love lifted me

 

Prayer – Jesus, all I can say is thank You. Thank You for throwing the rope that pulled me out of the mire. And Lord,  continue to “order my steps” through your Word. Amen

 

I’m Duane Matz, and that’s Today’s Living Word.