{"id":9226,"date":"2020-05-10T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=9226"},"modified":"2020-05-10T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T00:42:07","slug":"micah_7_14-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/micah_7_14-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Like You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Micah 7:14-21 \u00a0\u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Micah 7:14-20.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Micah 7:14-20 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.
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\nOn verse 14:\u00a0 Previously Micah focused on the rod of God\u2019s discipline (Micah 6:9), but now Micah ends his book by talking about the staff of God\u2019s tender leadership.\u00a0 Here Micah prays and invites God to shepherd His people.\u00a0 He describes God\u2019s people as a flock living \u201cby itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands\u201d, meaning that God has assigned a special and exclusive place for His people filled with blessings.\u00a0 The glory that His sheep will enjoy will be like in Israel\u2019s most glorious days of old.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0God is a shepherd who disciplines with His rod and who tenderly leads with His staff.\u00a0 When we follow our Shepherd, He leads us to an ancient place of blessing that we could never get to ourselves.\u00a0 You\u2019re always best off following your Shepherd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Micah 7:15-17 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my wonders.”
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will lay their hands on their mouths and their ears will become deaf.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to theLORD\u00a0our God and will be afraid of you.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 15-17:\u00a0 In the book of Exodus, God humbled the powerful nation of Egypt and showed that not even the most powerful nation was any match for Him.\u00a0 Micah perceives that God will do the same again with other powerful nations of the earth, showing that God alone is truly sovereign and powerful.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0No matter how powerful a person, group or nation thinks they are, they are no match for the Lord, who is all powerful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Micah 7:18-20 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Who 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.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You will be true to Jacob, and show mercy to Abraham, as you pledged on oath to our fathers in days long ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 18-20:\u00a0 The book of Micah begins by talking about how Jacob (Israel) sinned against God (Micah 1:5), but it ends here by talking of God\u2019s faithfulness and mercy toward Jacob.\u00a0 This is what makes the God of the Bible unique from every other god, religion, and philosophy you can study.\u00a0 Every other religion and philosophy is all about how we can reach God or become God through our own effort and ability.\u00a0 But a big theme of Micah and a big theme that pervades the entire Bible, both Old and New Testament, is that\u00a0while we could never reach God on our own, in His incredible mercy God reached for us, gives us grace and offers us a restoration that we could never earn or deserve<\/strong>.\u00a0 Though God is holy and hates our sin, He is also forgiving and compassionate, treading out sins underfoot when Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave.<\/p>\n

These three final verses of Micah are some of the most beautiful verses and form one of the best summaries of the Gospel you will find in the Old Testament.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not about how good we are, but how good God is.\u00a0 Through Jesus Christ, judgment gives way to mercy, and wrath gives way to forgiveness.<\/strong>\u00a0 Micah is right in asking the question, \u201cWho is a God like you?\u201d (v18)<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, who is like You?\u00a0 No one.\u00a0 There is no one who comes close to matching Your love, faithfulness, mercy, compassion and grace.\u00a0 Thank You so much for being a God of such incredible grace, for showing me grace and mercy every day of my life though I never deserved it.\u00a0 I praise You for being my Shepherd, my incomparable One, the One whose word is true, the One who keeps His promises, and the One who with compassion and great grace restores me. In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

This brings our look at the book of Micah to a close.\u00a0 Take a look back and see if you can name the most important lessons you learned from this book.\u00a0 Praise God for His powerful Word!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Micah 7:14-20.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Micah 7:14-20 (NIV)\u00a0
\n14\u00a0\u00a0Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.<\/p>\n

On verse 14:\u00a0 Previously Micah focused on the rod of God\u2019s discipline (Micah 6:9), but now Micah ends his book by talking about the staff of God\u2019s tender leadership.\u00a0 Here Micah prays and invites God to shepherd His people.\u00a0 He describes God\u2019s people as a flock living \u201cby itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands\u201d, meaning that God has assigned a special and exclusive place for His people filled with blessings.\u00a0 The glory that His sheep will enjoy will be like in Israel\u2019s most glorious days of old.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0God is a shepherd who disciplines with His rod and who tenderly leads with His staff.\u00a0 When we follow our Shepherd, He leads us to an ancient place of blessing that we could never get to ourselves.\u00a0 You\u2019re always best off following your Shepherd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9230,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions\/9230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}