He will turn again, He will have compassion on us. He will subdue our iniquities and You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19 ONM )
How many times have you pondered the passage of scripture in Micah 7:19? When we ask the Lord for forgiveness of all our sins we have committed and surrender to salvation, He totally forgives and forgets them. Even after we are saved and commit a sin, we can still go to the Lord and ask for forgiveness and again it gets tossed overboard into the sea of forgetfulness to be remembered no more. God lets us know that He erases our transgression for His sake. “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins” (Isaiah 43:25). His forgetting shows His Divine grace and mercies. When He looks at us He sees His Son and not us. He sees the blood of Jesus that blotted out all our transgressions. He has to forget what we have done so that we would not be consumed. “It is of the Lord‘s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23). This is the plan He chose so that we can be one with Him and the Son. (John 17:21) This enables Him to call us His children. This also allows the Lord to look upon us as righteous and not sinners anymore.
There is only a certain depth in the sea level that man can safely survive. If he tries to go beyond that depth he can experience complete loss of oxygen, brain damage, and damaging pressure which could possibly lead to death. So if God uses the actually depth of the sea as an analogy of how far he tosses our sin, He lets us know that it isn’t even attainable to man for retrieval. That’s why when someone tries to remind you of your past transgressions tell them to quit scuba diving in your sea. Let them know that they are diving in a level that will suffocate them and can cause them to experience damaging pressures.
God is requiring us to have this same nature if we are His. “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop” (Mark 11:25 AMPC). How many times have you heard a person say I forgive them but I can’t forget? Well they really haven’t let it go; they are still holding them in a bondage of captivity. They still need to walk out the full depth of true forgiveness. I’m not talking about touching a hot stove and getting burned. You can’t blame the stove for being hot when it is turned on because that’s what it does; it gets hot. You know now as a learning experience that you can’t touch it while it is hot. Well anyone that says they can’t forget they are allowing the incident to be an active part of their thought process. They are still feeling and experiencing the blisters from the burn. They are still blaming the stove for being hot. What if God were to continually feel the burns from our strange fires we once offered to idols before we gave our life to Him? Thank You Lord that You don’t! He has instead extended to us His Grace and His Mercy. Just as Jesus looks beyond His nail scarred hands and feet and see us now with love and compassion, let’s look beyond the blisters and scars from our burns and see others in the same manner and extend to them forgiveness. Then we can truly say: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!
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