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"Once again You will have compassion on us! You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!" Micah 7:19

Here is a melancholy fact intimated: The Lord had turned away His face from His people. He was displeased. There were now no sweet visits, no love-tokens, no intimate communion. But He threatens, He frowns, He smites, He shows His displeasure. He isangry—but not wrathful. He has sworn that He will not be wrathful with us. 

He smites—but to correct. 

He frowns—but to bring us to repentance. 

"Once again You will have compassion on us!" Once again He will look upon us—as He did on Peter when He broke his heart, and brought him back with weeping and supplication.

He will speak to us as He did to Mary, when He said, "Your sins are forgiven—go in peace." 

He will smile away our fears,
take us to His gentle bosom, and 
again assure us of His love. 

He will, for He has promised to do so. 
He will, for He has always done so. 
He will, for the love of His heart prompts Him to do so. 
He will, for He delights in mercy. 

Then let us mourn over our follies—but not despair of pardon. 

Let us weep, that we have grieved our kind and gracious God—but not yield to gloom. 

Let us confess our backsliding, and expect Him to return. 

"Once again You will have compassion on us! You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!"

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