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Who is a God Like Our God?
"Who is a God like You, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? You do not stay angry forever, but delight to show mercy.
You will again have compassion on us; You will tread our sins underfoot and hurl our iniquities into the depths of the sea. You will be faithful to Jacob and show love to Abraham, as You pledged to our ancestors in days long ago. (Micah 7:18-20).
HoMicah spoke these encouraging words to remind his people that God would redeem and restore them after their time of captivity.
Notice that his audience is God Himself. The Hebrews would be listening in on his conversation with God and marveling at his ability to enter into God's Presence and speak openly with the Sovereign Creator of everything!
Micah's name actually means "Who is like our God?" So this understanding about Jehovah had been part of Micah's world-view for many years!
I especially love the reminder that our God "delights to show mercy.:
And I love the picture of Him 'hurling' our sins away into the depths of the sea. 'Hurling,' not dropping or letting fall, but powerfully casting them as a discus thrower proplels his burden as far away as possible, eager to win the gold medal!
As far as we know, the deepest place on earth is the Marianas Trench in the south Pacific. It is about 6 miles deep, except for a section called the "Challenger Deep", that is over 7 miles deep. We base that on specially designed deep-sea diving units we send down -- no human can survive those depths.
Try to imagine 7 miles deep! That's how far God hurls away our sins. Another place tells us He removes from us our sins 'as far as the east is from the west' - so far a distance it can't be measured!
Christ did all that for us! Yes, who is a God like our God? And we could add from those last lines - who is a God like our God who always keeps His promises? How blessed we are to have a God like this!
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