We always feel sorry when we see a wrecked automobile like the one in our picture, or one that has slipped off the highway into the ditch.
Not long ago we noticed that a car was lying in the ditch alongside the road. The driver looked so helpless with his car lying there in the mud. Nor were the people who soon gathered able to help in any way. Later when everyone had gone back home, a big strong tow truck came and gently pulled the muddy car up to the road, and then towed it away to be repaired.
This incident brought before us the wonderful love of the Saviour, and that verse,
“He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.” Psalms 40:2, 32He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. (Psalm 40:2‑3).
How good of the Lord Jesus to come and save us in our deep, deep need! We were unable to help ourselves in any way — just as the driver was unable to get his car out of the ditch under its own power. Our parents and friends are not able to help either, just as the crowd of people that gathered around the Cor.
Have you trusted this precious Saviour? If not, accept Him today as your own personal Saviour — that One Who came where we were and had compassion on us (Luke 10:3333But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, (Luke 10:33)). Then you will be able to sing,
“From sinking sand He lifted me;
With tender hand He lifted me.
From shades of night to plains of light —
Oh praise His name, He lifted me!”
ML 07/26/1953