October 13, 2008

 What's Your Pit?

I just finished reading Beth Moore’s book entitled “Get Out Of That Pit!” If you have never read it I encourage you to do so. In it she states that a pit is an early grave that satan digs for you in hopes he can bury you alive.

That statement caused me to ask the question what is my pit. My first thought was bless the Lord, I am not in a pit at this present time. Normally, we think of pits as some type of sin, but does it have to be? It’s a place where I cannot see my vision has been obscured. It might be sin, but it might not. She said it doesn’t have to be a stronghold or sin, we just have to feel stuck, feel like we’ve lost vision, how about feeling like you’ve lost direction and not being able to see a way of escape.

We can either be thrown into a pit, we can slip into a pit or we can jump into a pit. No matter how we got in we have to first recognize what we are experiencing is not right and have a desire to get out. Okay now I go back and talk to myself about this pit situation and my pit becomes clear. It is the pit of weight, being overweight. It’s not normal and I shouldn’t want to live here.

I slipped in to the pit one pound at a time, one skipped meal, one eating the wrong thing, one skipped or missed workout at a time until now here I am, in a pit. Desiring to lose 75-100 pounds. Knowing it mentally, but unsure how to do it. Listening to the enemy say don’t worry about it, as long as you are healthy that’s all that matters. Not comfortable with it but excusing it away by my busy schedule and ministry situations. Excusing it away by not having time to focus on it. Guess what? It’s a pit. Your vision of losing the weight becomes dimmer each day. You try but nothing happens so you keep trying, but nothing happens so you think this is how I am supposed to be.

The devil is a liar! It’s a pit to keep you from the purpose God has for you. A pit to keep you from sharing with people that they can do all things through Christ who strengthens them (Philippians 4:13), a pit to keep you from telling people that nothing is impossible with Christ (Luke 1:37).

I answered the question for me. My pit is weight! What is your pit? Where does the enemy have you hemmed up and thinking that you can’t do what God has purposed you to do? Where does the enemy have you feeling stuck, like there is no way you are ever going to be able to get out of this? Beth said to cry out to the Lord about it. Don’t just cry, cry out!

Confess it, and consent to His will in your situation and in your life. If you are ready to get out, God is ready to get you out. After you get out remember how you got in and avoid going back at all costs whether you slipped in, were pushed in or fell in. Learn from your pit experience, and give that to God for your protection, then follow His leading. Whether it is a weight issue like mine, a relationship issue, an issue from the past, an eating disorder, an addiction, a job situation or a family, no matter what kind of pit it is if you will identify it, decide to get out and submit to God’s will He is able to deliver you.

Remember that nothing, including that thing that looks like a pit, that thing that is trying to swallow you up alive, nothing can hold you when God has purposed you, so remember your deliverance is God’s priority and nothing is impossible with God.

Weekly Scripture:

Luke 1:37: 37 For nothing is impossible with God.[a]”

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