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Mic_7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Ver. 19. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us] Here is the pith and power of faith, particularly applying promises to a man’s self. Say that sin hath separated between us and our God, Isa_59:2, and made him send us far away into captivity; yet he will turn again and yearn toward us, he will turn again our captivity as the streams in the south. His compassions are more than fatherly, Psa_103:13; motherly, Isa_49:15; brotherly, Heb_2:12. This the Church knows, and therefore cries after him, "Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart," Son_8:14, which when it fleeth looketh behind it, saith the Chaldee paraphrast there. And this that he will do, she is bold to believe. He will, he will, and that to us, saith the prophet here. Lo, this is that work of faith, to wrap itself in the promises as made to us in particular, 1Ti_1:15; and unless faith be on this sort actuated, it is, as to comfort, as good as no faith. See Mat_8:26 cf. Mar_4:30.
He will subdue our iniquities]. By force and violence (as the word signifieth), subiugabit, pessundabit, conculcabit. Sin is sturdy, and will rebel where it cannot reign. It hath a strong heart, and will not easily yield. But yield it shall, for God will subdue it. And this is a further favour (as every former is a pledge of a future). To pardon of sin God will add power against sin; to justification by Christ’s merit, sanctification by his Spirit; he will let out the life blood of sin, and lay it a dying at our feet; he will tread Satan with all his black train under our feet shortly, Rom_16:20. He will not only turn us again, but turn his hand upon us, and purely purge away our dross, and take away all our tin, Isa_1:25. In fine at the end he will so mortify the deeds of the body by his Spirit, that sin shall not have dominion over us, Rom_6:14, shall not play Rex King in us; the traveller shall not become the man of the house, as Nathan’s parable speaketh.
And thou wilt cast all their sins into the bottom of the sea] Wherehence they shall never be buoyed up again. Thus the prophet, by an insinuating apostrophe, turneth himself to God, and speaks with much confidence. Such is the nature of true faith, sc. to grow upon God, and, as I may so say, to encroach; as Moses did, Exo_33:12-13; Exo_34:10; and as David did, 1Ch_17:23, &c. See how he improves God’s promise, and works upon it, 1Ch_17:24-25, he goes over it again, and yet still encroacheth; and the effect was good, 1Ch_18:14. We hinder ourselves of much happiness by a sinful shamefacedness. Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, Heb_4:16; so shall we see our sins, as Israel did the Egyptians, dead on the shore.