For Kids · 4 min with a grown-up
This is the very last chapter of Micah. It starts on a sad day — but it ends with one of the happiest pictures of God in the whole Bible.
Today's Story
Micah was having a hard, lonely day. He looked around and felt like all the good, kind people were gone. It seemed like nobody wanted to do the right thing anymore. Have you ever felt all alone like that?
But then Micah said one tiny word that changed everything. “But…”
“But as for me,” Micah said, “I will watch and wait for God. I will keep looking up to Him. My God hears me, and He will help me.”
Then Micah said something so brave: “Even if I trip and fall down, I will get back up! Even when I am sitting in the dark, God will be my light.”
And here is the most wonderful part. Micah looked up at God and was amazed. He said, “Who is a God like You? You love to forgive! When we are sorry, You do not stay angry. You are happy to be kind to us.”
Micah pictured God taking all the wrong things His people had done and throwing them way out into the deep, deep sea — gone, sunk, never to be counted against them again.
That is the God Micah waited for. The God who forgives. The God who is our light, even in the dark.
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Talk About It
- Micah had a lonely day when it felt like nobody was being kind. When was a time you felt lonely or sad — and what helped you feel better?
- Micah said, “Even if I fall down, I will get back up.” What is something hard you could try again, even after it did not go well the first time?
- Micah was amazed that God loves to forgive. How does it feel to know God is happy to clean away our wrong things when we are sorry?