Unfailing Love

hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea ~ Micah 7:19

 

My daughter once lost a teething ring in a swampy bit of water in St. Augustine Florida. What compounded the retrieval of the ring was that it settled onto the snout of a rather large alligator. Just relocating where the ring was a miraculous achievement on my part as I realized after the fact that it was gone, but the sight of this rainbow colored ring on an alligator’s snout was not one that would ever be forgotten. Now to be clear, we were guests at an alligator farm so this wasn’t a wild and dangerous setting, and the walkway that we were traveling on made it impossible for me, dad, to do anything stupid, as in trying to retrieve the ring, but the hurling of the teething ring into the swampy water was the end of it. It was gone and after a short period of time very rarely ever thought of.

 

Micah 7:19 says of God, he hurls all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

 

Corrie ten Boom (Dutch Resistance Hero) says,

“When God buries our sins in the deepest sea,

he then post’s a sign that says, no fishing allowed.”

 

There is no need for us to return to the scene of the crime, to continue to replay the act, or to cry over the broken moment.

 

God pardons, ...shows compassion, ...triumphs over his peoples’ sins, ...and seals those sins away. By his unfailing love, God continues to offer hope to those who trust in him.

 

Lord, help us to live for today’s opportunities, and to remember your pardons, your compassion, and your unfailing love.

 

Pray on...

Song: Relentless Love