Covered by the Mud

So the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard… There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.

Jeremiah 38:6

Here was a nasty business for Jeremiah that we can all relate to. A scene from the 1987 motion picture The Princess Bride comes to mind, when Princess Buttercup sinks into quicksand in the Fire Swamp. Sometimes life suddenly turns to mush all around us and we have nothing to hold onto to gather our bearings. In such times we must remember that even there our Lord is with us. Even there in the mud we are covered by the blood of Christ and loved greatly by highest heaven. We will not always be sinking; soon enough our Savior, like the hero Westley, will bring us out and place our feet on solid ground again.