Week 6 Sunday 18th March
Chapter 7.
What are we like?
- Dissatisfied and unfulfilled (verse 1)
- Good people can seem scarce (verse 2)
- Full of enmity (verse 2)
- We are good at doing the wrong thing (verse 3)
- Corrupt (verse 3)
- We abuse power (verse 3)
- Not to be trusted (verse 5)
- Our families are full of disharmony (verse 6)
What is God like?
- Our light (verse 8)
- He judges (verse 9)
- He makes a fair assessment of our lives (verse 9)
- He deals with the wicked (verse 10)
- He restores and brings added value (verse 11)
- He is to be feared and respected (verses 14-17)
- He is incomparable (verse 18)
- He forgives (verse 18)
- His anger does not last (verse 18)
- He prefers to show mercy (verse 18)
- He is compassionate (verse 19)
What should we be like?
- Trusting in God and waiting, safe in the knowledge that he loves us and will save us from ourselves and others (verse 7).
Micah says:
“But as for me, I will look to the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.”
Amen!