“But as for me, I will be on the watch for the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me…” Micah 7:7-8.
David says
in Psalm 51 that our sin is always before us, and we all agree. As
Christians, we end up in a freeze mode whenever we fall into sin, and we rarely
know what to do. However, Micah gave us hope in these verses and showed us what
to do when we fall into sin.
A) The
Boldness to Watch(7a): Micah
calls us to look unto the Lord for help, not to ourselves because he knows
that we cannot cleanse our sins; only God can. We should rest assured as
Christians that Christ’s atoning death on the cross is enough for us. The wrath
that was supposed to be upon us, Christ, died for us. The only act we can do is
to confess our sins before him.
B) The
Boldness to Wait(7b): Micah
then exhorts to wait upon the Lord because he knows that salvation
comes from God alone. Micah hopes that God will not only forgive his sin but
that God’s grace in forgiveness will help him overcome the sin of his life. The
Lord will not only cleanse us from our sin, but his grace will help us overcome
it when we wait upon him. We have to depend on him to help us, knowing that we will be free from it someday.
However, the devil will continue to condemn us, and Micah knows that. Therefore Micah responded in verse 8, which should also be our response to the devil, “Do not rejoice over me, enemy of mine. Though I fall, I will rise; Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.” When we look unto Him and wait upon Him to help us, he will surely bring us out from the darkness into the light, and amazingly, God will give us the grace to talk to the devil like Micah did in these verses.
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