Thursday, June 25, 2026
Micah 7:18-20
God’s Compassion and Steadfast Love
18 Who 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.
19 He 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.
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors
from the days of old.
When you're overwhelmed, sometimes the hardest thing is simply to start.
Getting in shape. Cleaning the house. Managing your finances.
As a dad, I've noticed that one of the best ways to motivate my kids through a big task is to join them for the first few minutes. I'll ask them to clean their room, and I can see the overwhelm wash over their face. So I'll start the process myself, slowly inviting them in. Before long, they find their own momentum — and I'm free to go.
Dealing with sin can feel the same way. When we take an honest look at what's broken in our lives, it can be overwhelming — especially if we picture God as a cosmic micromanager just waiting to pounce on every failure.
Thanks be to God that he isn't that way.
The prophet Micah tells us that God is one "who delights in showing steadfast love" — a God who "will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." Like those first five minutes beside my kids, God comes alongside us. He doesn't stand at the finish line waiting to grade us. He gets into it with us, freeing us not just from the weight of sin, but from the exhausting pressure to be perfect.
Our God loves us. He went to the cross to deal with our sin so that we could have life — and life to the full.
So today: what do you want to hand over to him?
– Pr. Jason
God, thank you for meeting me in my sin and overwhelm so that I can get started living life and life to the full with you. Amen.
