There are many things that I admire about Corrie Ten Boom—her love for Jesus, her heart of humility, and the fact that she was a survivor. She was a Dutch Christian who, along with her family, saved the lives of over 800 Jews by hiding them from the Nazi occupiers in Holland during World War II.  She was captured and endured imprisonment at the Ravensbruck death camp of the Nazis. Her father, brother, sister, and nephew all died during imprisonment. She went on to become a sought after Christian speaker. One of my favorite quotes of hers is this: “There is no pit too deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.”

Do you find yourself in a pit today?  Your heart is gripped with a sense of desperation and hopelessness.  At the breaking point.  The grinding stress of a lingering illness of a loved one has gotten the best of you.  You continue to struggle with an addiction.You are  angry because the job opportunity you wanted hasn’t yet materialized.  You wait on the fringes for someone to welcome you into your community of faith.  You wait for the joy of having your own children.  You reach the outer limits of exasperation as you wrestle to stay on top of your many academic demands.  You wait for your own adult children to become gainfully employed and out on their own.

All of us have at times fallen into what Matthew Henry calls a "despondency of spirit under the sense of God’s withdrawings, and prevailing doubts and fears about one’s relationship with God. This is indeed a horrible pit and miry clay, and have been so to many a dear child of God."

Take courage like Corrie ten Boom did from Psalm 40:1-3. "I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD."