Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today's Reading: Micah 7:18-20 Daily Lectionary: Joshua 5:1-6:5; Acts 10:1-17 You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. When things get lost at sea, they tend to stay lost. The sea is big and it is deep. The water is full of currents, moving things around. There are great chasms and canyons in the ocean that are pitch black – so dark, in fact, that God gave some fish their own little lights to navigate in the dark! Sometimes the Bible pictures God's keeping a record in a book – a record of every person and every deed committed by each person. The Bible describes God's opening the books on the Day of Judgment. This is some heavy Law. God noticed your sins. He will remember them. He recorded them, after all. What would happen if God took that book and tossed it into the sea? What would happen if your sins were not recorded forever, but were thrown into the deepest, darkest part of the ocean? There can be no condemnation if there are no sins. There can