Micah 7:7
7 But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord,
I wait for God my Saviour;
my God will hear me.
In yesterday’s verses we saw how human help is no help at all when it comes to being rescued from God’s righteous judgment. In today’s verse, we see where Micah has put his confidence: ‘But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord’.
‘But’ is a really powerful word throughout the Bible. In the story of Noah, back in Genesis, we read that ‘The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark’ In the story of Daniel, he is faced with an impossible task when the king asks Daniel to tell him his dream and explain it. “Daniel replied, ‘No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries.” When Jonah had been thrown into the sea, during his attempt to escape God, he says “To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in for ever. But you, Lord my God, brought my life up from the pit.”
Again and again, we see people stuck in apparently hopeless situations, and then we read ‘But …’ and we know that all is not lost. God’s people don’t need to despair. They can commit themselves to him in dependent faith. Help is coming! What we’ve seen repeated hundreds of times in the history of God’s dealings with his people is true for us, too. Whatever is going on around us, we can choose to echo Micah’s words: “But as for me, I wait for God my Saviour.” We can commit ourselves to God’s safe-keeping, confident that he hears us and will answer when we cry out to him. Let’s praise him for that today.
