The Daily Press
October 8—Destruction’s Pit Read Psalm 40: 1–2 Imagine you are walking through mud so thick and deep that you can hardly walk. Your feet skid and sink, and the heavy mud cakes on your shoes until you lose them altogether: they stay stuck when you wrench your feet free. Now imagine you’re staggering through mud like that at the bottom of dark, dank pit. The walls of the pit are made of the same slimy mud! How will you ever get out? The psalmist begins Psalm 40 by remembering a time in his...