Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-16


when any sin once gets a hold on yot
you are IN that very same Kind OF fix
Standing still IN sin IL as impossible a.
standing still In fire. All embezzlers and
bank vreokers begin by taking just q
little money In the start. but having made
the start, they must SO on and take
more, and 20 instead OF getting out Of
their trouble By more and more dlshon.
esty. they get deeper and deeper. The
poor man In the text had probably been
trying TO get free from his troubles In
his own way for a long while before he
cried to the Lord. just 81 all OF ua have
done.
sin Brings Tr0ubIe.
There will always be troubles where
there is Sin. and we don't have TO read
the Bible TO know this We have ali
found II out for ourselves. and some Of
us By the bittsrest kind OF experience.
The little child soon finds out that as
soon as Il disobeys its parents Il gets
into trouble. He that would hide hts
SIN ahall have trouble enough" the Bible
says but he that will confess and for
sake II is certain OF peace"
This poor man cried, and the Lord
heard him. and saved him out Of hts
troubies." II you want TO know what
Christian experience is. read the Psalms
for they are full of II. and what you find
there II authentic. You can't always tell
Just what Christian experience is By
hearing people talk IN meeting. for the
reason that no man has ever yet lived
who could 20 express himself about any
thing az to be clearly and fully under
stood.
things can ~ best be but poorly en-
pressed IN words- Some seem 70 say too
little. others too much; but In the Psalms
We have Christian experience given IN In
sptred language, ana can much better
understand just what Il meant. This
poor man cried" This shows that hia
troubles must have been very greet. for
when q man cries he IL generally In Q
sorrow that is nigh unto death. This
poor man cried" He had reached place
whore he had stopped trying TO DO any
thing 70 help himself. for he was in a
place where there was no earthly pros
poet Of his ever getting out Despair was
on his track. and he was hedged In on
every side. He was in q place like that
occupied by the children OF Israel when
they wrung their hands ana cried out,
20. wrotched men that We arei Why did
we make the startf Were there no
graves in Egypt that We should come out
10 pertsh In the wsldeFnessf"
Red Sea Flssore Them.
Before them was the Red Sea. and be-
hind them was Pharaoh's host. On one
aide was & precipice, and on the othaE
rocks There seemed 10 be
for them no possible way Of escape. bue
there are no impossibilitlss with God. and
Il wasn't long before they were shoutinS
and singing. "Rsjoioe. for the Lord hath
triumphed gloFiouslyl The horse and his
rider hath He thrown into the SEAL
This poor man cried and the Lord
heard himi" One Of the things God can
not do Il 10 turn q deaf ear to CRY like
that. He would stop making a world n
necessary 10 help the one who sends NJ
such cry an this poor man aid.
The poor man was seeking God with a
hsarfbreak. and whoever sseks Him IN
that way is never disappointed. Tho mar
wanted Gods hslp just then moro thar
soul cried for immediate definite help
and he rot Il. Standing up for prayers
amounts 20 little Unless the heart sets on
itn kneee
when msn sssk Coz azight they do !,
- ths hungry seek bread. and a. the
fanishing seek water; and WREN they dc
10 n that way they find Him. beeAuas
they comply with conditions that were
made before the foundations OF the earth
were laid. ''If thou seek the Lord tiny
God. thout shalt find Him. II thou seoh
Him with ali thy heart and with ali thy
eouk"
We are told IN the fourteenth Psalm
where David was when the Lord heard
and answered his CRY, He was In hor-
Tihas PIT. sinking In miry clay. from which
he could DO nothing TO extricate himself.
The moro he struggled against the mire
the deeper he sank into a. II he cried
% men for help. nothing but the mookins
echo Of his own voice came hack to him.
"A long a. he looked at himself or HIS
situation he waa helpless and hopeless,
end q was not untn he began TO look up
that he could find ray OF light Hia
oase was desperate. bat he cried to Him
who b always ready 10 help the dsspsr-
alta.
Thsre n only one way 10 set out Of
ths miro u stn. and that IL TO be lifted
out Of Il ~ TIE hands that were nailed
b ths orosS. Human hands might help
us perhaps. n thsy could. but they ara
70 short and weak. Only the hand OF
Christ can reach NJ when We fall into
he devils pit. The fact that he took
DAVID cut is q sure prophecy that ne will
deliver yOv II you win but ask Him and
trust HIM TO do II, as David ala. II the
Lord were not a. ready To help you and
me ~ He wAs 70 help him. this Psalm
would not have q place In the Bible. II
would have no business there. because
what God does for one He stands pledged
to do for another.
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Some people consider the Psalms poetry,
but the very heart Of them Is Christian
experience. The horrible pit and the miry
clay are not mere figures OF speech. but
terTtble realities In every unregenerate
life No matter where the sinner goes,
he has 10 travel IN the mud, and the
longer he lives In SIN the deeper the mlre
becomes Dvery day that he remains
away from God puts him down deeper and
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