Who Is A God like Unto Thee!

“Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.” Micah 7:18 Oh! merciful and gracious God who is like unto thee! One can never answer this question until they realize the grace and mercy of our great God and Saviour Jehovah God. I am not talking about all the trash that is preached from the pulpits today, I’m talking about really having a basic understanding of Gods grace and mercy. People sing the glorious old hymn every week titled “Amazing Grace” and never have an understanding of what they sing. This is grace “…that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage…” one is not simply saved; oh no; one is saved because of Gods mercy and grace. One does not simply change their mind and follow the Lord. “There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.” Romans 3:11 Not one single person since the fall of Adam. Every single person born since Adam fell has been born at enmity with God. Not one single person should have ever been allowed to stand before our great God; not one. God is holy and cannot accept sin before Him at all. God hates sin as He hates the workers thereof. He should have never loved one single sinner since the fall of Adam. Every single human being since and including Adam and Eve should rightly be cast into eternal darkness to burn in hell’s fire for all eternity. Paul said in Romans 7:24 "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" and then he goes on to answer in the next verse "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord..." because man certainly cannot deliver himself. Oh I know many today proclaim that salvation is easy and free and all you have to do is to do some impossible act on your own, they say that God cannot change mans will but that you must change you own will, but I say, as God says that is impossible. A Leopard cannot change his spots and an Ethiopian cannot change his skin color and man cannot change what he is and that is one that is at enmity with God. Now this is a fact; all that talk does is cancel the grace and mercy of God. How can one sing “oh merciful and gracious God” if all or any of salvation is up to a person who will never seek God on his own! If salvation was in any part or in any way up to man we would never be saved. God said in Romans 11:6 "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." Just as grace stops being grace once one believes that salvation is by our works, then salvation stops being mercy and grace once man has any part in it. Jonah shouted "...I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. Jonah 2:9 not because he rescued himself but that he was entirely rescued but God. How are we to ask “Who is a God like unto thee…” if we fail to recognize that He is the Saviour. It is God folks, not God and me, but simply God. Understanding that we cannot save ourselves nor do we play any role in our salvation. It is only then that we can even begin to have an understanding of both mercy and grace. "For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee." Psalms 86:5 but we will never call on Him without God first calling us and leading us to the cross of Christ where both His mercy and grace is at.