Kansas City, Missouri, United States - Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - "Is God Mad At Me?" Sunday, 21 December 2014 - Scripture: Micah 7:14-20

Kansas City, Missouri, United States - Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - "Is God Mad At Me?" Sunday, 21 December 2014 - Scripture: Micah 7:14-17 Shepherd, O God, your people with your staff,
    your dear and precious flock.
Uniquely yours in a grove of trees,
    centered in lotus land.
Let them graze in lush Bashan
    as in the old days in green Gilead.
Reproduce the miracle-wonders
    of our exodus from Egypt.
And the godless nations: Put them in their place—
    humiliated in their arrogance, speechless and clueless.
Make them slink like snakes, crawl like cockroaches,
    come out of their holes from under their rocks
And face our God.
    Fill them with holy fear and trembling.
18-20 Where is the god who can compare with you—
    wiping the slate clean of guilt,
Turning a blind eye, a deaf ear,
    to the past sins of your purged and precious people?
You don’t nurse your anger and don’t stay angry long,
    for mercy is your specialty. That’s what you love most.
And compassion is on its way to us.
    You’ll stamp out our wrongdoing.
You’ll sink our sins
    to the bottom of the ocean.
You’ll stay true to your word to Father Jacob
    and continue the compassion you showed Grandfather Abraham—
Everything you promised our ancestors
    from a long time ago.
"Is God Mad At Me?" by Bob Broadbooks
Pastor Martin Niemoller spent seven years in one of Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps because he refused to preach Nazism instead of Christ. He later remarked, “It took me a long time to learn that God is not the enemy of my enemies. He is not even the enemy of His enemies.”
With Micah, we ask, “Who is a God like you?” All other gods are deaf, dumb, heartless, and because of their inability to answer prayers, ineffective and impotent. However, our God is incomparably unique. He does not hate his enemies. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:8). He is anxious for all to know His forgiveness.
Many fear that God is mad at them. They assume that He has sent all the troubles and trials they experience to punish them. Yet the Bible says clearly, He is not angry forever, He delights to show mercy.
There is no one like Him. Rejoice today. He is yours!
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