Who is Like Unto You

"Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity, and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loving-kindness. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. And you will cast into the depths of the sea all their sins. You will perform truth for Jacob, and loving-kindness to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old" (Micah 7:18-20).

The past days have simply been unreal. In the midst of my failures, sins, iniquities, and transgressions, God has delighted in showering us with loving-kindness. I am working full time, and that is the least of it all. In the past four days God has given us a four bedroom house in the community for less monthly rent than the owner's morgage payment. And the thoughts of God are manifold. The house has a two car-car port. We don't have a car! The house is off the market until next summer, and I have already said to the realitor, that perhaps God, in all his mercy, will provide us with the down payment that we might purchase the house we will live in for the next 8 months. Is it possible? Nothing is impossible with God!

In the original text, Luke uses the word RHEMA when he says to Mary that "no word will be impossible with God" (Luke 1:37). God is in the house, and nothing is impossible.

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! - 1 John 3:1a

"I have an important business meeting in the morning. Would you please set the alarm for 5:30 a.m.?" I said to my wife."Oh, that won't be necessary. Just tell the Lord what time you want to wake up. He does it for me all the time," my wife said.I rolled my eyes in disbelief. "Well, I'd feel more comfortable if we set the alarm.""Okay, ye of little faith. But just to prove my point I am going to ask the Lord to wake us up just before 5:30."The next morning I awoke before the alarm went off. I looked at the clock. It read 5:15. I looked at my wife, who had just awakened at the same time with an I-told-you-so smile.Sometimes we wrongfully view God as someone we go to for only the "big things." The idea of "bothering God" for such a trivial matter seems foolish and presumptuous. However, when you were a child and had to get up in the morning for school, didn't your mom or dad come wake you up? They were your parents, and you could come to them with the most trivial concerns or requests. Why would our heavenly Father be any less approachable? Perhaps our problem is that we simply have not developed a level of intimacy with God so that we feel the freedom to approach Him at these daily, routine levels. We often operate with an unwritten code that says our needs must have a certain degree of importance or crisis before we come to God with them. This is not God's character towards us.Does the Lord desire this level of intimacy with you and me? The apostle Paul exhorted us to "pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17 KJV). There is never a caution to pray only about matters of greater importance.Today, go to God with matters that you might view as trivial and would normally avoid bringing to God. Ask God to increase your level of intimacy with Him. You may even be able to get rid of your alarm clock (Os Hillman-Today God is First)