However far we feel we have fallen, however distant God may seem, we can be assured that God is for us, his character and his promises have not changed. There is hope for the future.
Read: Micah 7: 7-9 and 7: 18-20
After suffering the consequences of their nations failure to honour God, Israel is pictured as a suffering and defeated person. Waiting in the darkness, mocked by all her enemies…and yet confidant that God will bring light, healing, and rescue.
Why, despite all that has happened, does Israel have confidence that God loves them and is on their case?
Firstly, because of his unique character: “where is another God like you”. God has not abandoned his “special people”; he is still forgiving, capable of unfailing love, faithful and compassionate. That is who he is, and he does not change.
And so, secondly, his promises don’t change either. The promises he made to Abraham and Jacob about making Israel into a great nation through whom all the nations of the world would be blessed has not been rescinded. Israel may have needed to be moulded and refined by the years of invasion and exile, but God still planned to use them as part of his plan to show himself to the world, ultimately when a baby, who was said to be Immanuel, God with us, was born to a Jewish couple, Jesus, Yeshua, the rescuer not just of Israel, but of the whole world.
However far you may feel you have fallen, however far from God you have run, God will go deeper and run further to get you back. His grace and love for you have not changed. Reach out to him, run back to him like the lost son in Jesus story and you will find him waiting, running to meet you.
Pilgrim Traveller 