Psalm 40:2-3 He 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. . . . . [3] And 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.
Can you remember when God reached down farther than you could ever reach up?
When the precious, Sovereign God stretched down His hand to you and lifted you out of the pit of your sins. That was the greatest day of your life.
We could never have reached Him. Thank God, where man failed, grace prevailed, Rom. 5:20.
I praise His name that He loved us in spite of what we were and are.
Thank God for His tenderness toward those who deserve wrath.
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“Once my soul was astray from the heavenly way — and was wretched and vile as could be. — But my Saviour in love gave me peace from above — When he reached down his hand for me.
“When my Savior reached down for me. — When my Savior reached down for me.— I was lost and undone without my God or his son — When my Savior reached down for me.
“I was near to despair when he came to me there, — And he showed me that I could be free. — Then he lifted my feet gave me gladness complete — When he reached down His hand for me.”
G.E. Wright 1921
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