Did you know if you climb
down into a deep enough hole in broad daylight then look up you will see the
stars? One of my instructors in college told us this. He was teaching on bridge
construction and talked about how deep the holes for the bridge support pillars
have to be. Then he mentioned that if you went down into one of those holes and
looked up you would see the stars. I remember thinking, “That is so cool! I
want to try it. Where’s a hole deep enough for me to crawl down into.” The
reason is the hole is so deep that the sunlight is cut off from your vision.
When deep enough in a hole/pit, the sun’s light is blocked out and you see the
stars. This is such a wide known belief that Aristotle mentioned it in one of
his essays in the 300 BC’s and Charles Dickens begins Chapter 20 of Pickwick Papers with it. That is how
cool it is.
Sin is like a pit. If you are deep enough in sin it is hard
to see the Light. The deeper you are in a pit, the darker it is, and the harder
it is to climb out. In fact, if you are deep enough you cannot get out alone,
you need a ladder or rope. If you are too deep in the pit of sin you need help
getting out. Prayer (Lam 3:55, “I have called on your name, O Lord, from the
deepest pit.”) and accountability (ECC. 4:9-10, “Two people are better than
one, because they can reap more benefit from their labor. For if they fall, one
will help his companion up, but pity the person who falls down and has no one to
help him up.”) are the ladder and rope you need.
The interesting thing is that this is a myth. It has been
proven to be incorrect. At the bottom of a pit you will still see daylight. The
same is true of sin. No matter how deep you are in the pit of sin, you can
still see the Light as long as you look up. Satan wants you to believe if you get deep enough, The Lord will not forgive you or want to help you. The Lord will hear you and help
(Psalm 103:3-4, “He is the one who forgives all your sins, who heals all your
diseases, who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal
love and compassion.”), no matter if you accidentally fell into the pit or
crawled down willingly (Psalm 7:15, “he digs a pit and then falls into the hole
he has made.”).
So the next time you find yourself in the pit, look up.
Isaiah 38:17, “Look, the grief I experienced was for my
benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins
from your sight.”
Luke 17:3, “Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke
him. If he repents, forgive him.”
Heb. 3:13, “But exhort one another each day, as long as it
is called ‘Today,’ that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.”
Love You,
Dad
