Who redeems your life from the pit,
Who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
(Psalm 103:4 ESV)
To be redeemed is to be "bought" back....to have someone else take the penalty for us or pay the price for us. To be delivered. How many times oh Lord have I felt like I was just that..."in a pit" and couldn't get out. Couldn't crawl out, couldn't yell my way out, with noone to rescue me. But you oh Lord, you deliver us from the pit....you take our place, you rescue us and pay the cost for us to be delivered. Oh Lord how freeing is that to know that when I do get in a pit, that I have a deliverer...I have someone to rescue me. Even if I were on a deserted Island...you are there to pull me out. Even if I am caught up in my own misery in my mind...you oh Lord can set me free.
I feel right now that is what has happened several times in my life. When I was in the middle of my divorce, stuck in the hotel, not knowing when I would be set free, or if I would be set free. I thought there was no where out...but you oh Lord, pulled me out and brought me to Kansas City. Oh, how greatful I am. When I was caught up in my drinking and didn't see anyway at all to quit...you delivered me, you gave me a way out like your word promises. And once again, after being told my whole life that I had mental illness...you revealed to me how that was a lie and all I needed to do was speak it and you would free my mind from the lie that satan sent me as a child from my mother. Believing and putting myself on medication because I didn't know I could run to you with my anxiety, that I could run to you with my depression. All I had ever seen was a medicine bottle. I knew I was saved, but didn't know that you loved me enough to give me freedom from my own thoughts. You are my kinsman redeemer Lord...oh how I love you you and am so thankful for your redeeming hand, your redeeming love and your redeeming power.
And you crown me with steadfast love and mercy. This means you surround me with steadfast love and mercy. I see that to mean that you cover me, hide me, keep me safe from the outside influences that could once again affect my mind. You crown me with your love and mercy so that the things of my past do not continue to haunt my mind. So that, they do not pull me back into the shroud of darkness that satan would so love to see me get pulled back into. You love me Lord...oh how you love me.
