Micah 7:18-20 NRSVue
18Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love. 19He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. 20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors from the days of old.
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Further reflection
/He does not retain his anger for ever, because he delights in steadfast love. /The parable of the Prodigal Son gives me a picture of that steadfast love. There, Lord, you show how your heavenly father would appear in human form. When he welcomes back his lost son with tears of delight, kills the fatted calf, brings out the best robe, and throws a great party, it is not to please other people, but to give expression to his own overwhelming pleasure that his child has come home. You delight in me.
Time and again and God promises me goodness, yet I often wonder where it is now. I pray that my eyes may be opened to appreciate where God is working.
God has cast my sins into the depths of the sea and does not see me now through them nor judge me because of them. I pray that I may receive the forgiveness that God offers.
At times I feel as if I walk alone. I draw strength from the faith of the many generations who have gone before me, who bring me to where I am.