From the pit to the rock

So I had some close friends growing up who had acquired 4 wheel drive trucks. I never had one, have never desired one because in my outlook that was just one more place for me to get into trouble, and one more thing to have go wrong on my vehicle. But, not so for my friends. One of my closest friends got a 4 wheel drive and we fixed it up, got it running right and took it into a huge mud pit which is now St. Johns River COmmunity College. We took it through every mud hole there was and it never got stuck, we took turns manuevering it through mud sometimes half way up the door and this was a very big, high sitting truck. It had huge tires on it and a lift so the door's bottom was about waist high for me. We were so proud and enjoyed this so much that a few days later we went to a place called "the pits" and once again stuck the truck in the worst area and tried to dig our way out with the tires, this time no luck. We eventually had to call for help, get boards and shovels out and dig. We had to dig out around the tires, stick boards under each tire the best we could so that it would not dig down deeper and have another large truck pull us out. This was no longer fun to us, atleast not to me. I didn't go on many more of those excursions as I am not into all the digging and calling, and pleading that was involved.
The bottom line however, is that we had to dig out and get the tires on a solid surface for them to have a chance at driving us out of the hole. WE also had to have the power of another truck to pull so that together we could get one truck out.
This is much like what David was referring to in these verses in Psalms 40:1-2; I relied completely on the Lord, and He turned toward me and heard my cry for help. He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.
David was in the pits, in a slimy watery pit that life had thrown his way. There are so many figurative examples that this pit could be representing. It could have been when Saul chased him out of the palace and attempted to have him killed, it could have been when his own son Absolom attempted to assasinate him, or maybe it was near the time of his adultery with Bathseba, or the death of his illegitimate child. All of these are examples of major pits that David fell into, but regardless of what pit it was he handled it the way God calls us to handle it.He called out to God to help Him and instead of getting a little bit of comfort, or even getting a lift out of the pit, he in affect got lifted completely out and placed on a rock solid foundation where he found secure footing.
YEsterday we were in the pit, today we see that God is waiting for us to surrender our pits to Him completely, then and only then can He take us out and place us on solid ground. THat's where we get our joy, and our song which is what we will talk more about tomorrow.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!