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Day 164

August 17, 2025 • Aneel Aranha • Season 3 • Episode 164

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Explore God's certain justice through Micah 1-4, Psalm 10, and Matthew 24, discovering how to live with hope and readiness while actively working against oppression in the present.

Day 164 – God Has Not Forgotten

Micah 1–4
Psalm 10
Matthew 24

Some days the wrong people seem to be winning, and heaven seems to have nothing to say about it. Micah names the problem without flinching. People who lie awake planning how to seize fields and houses. Rulers who hate good and love evil. Prophets who promise peace to anyone who feeds them. Psalm 10 puts the ache into words we recognize. Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? Meanwhile the wicked congratulate themselves that God has forgotten. But the psalm doesn't stop there. God sees the trouble of the afflicted. He considers their grief and takes it in hand. He is the helper of the fatherless, and He is King for ever and ever. Micah 4 looks further still, to a day when nations hammer their swords into plowshares and everyone sits under their own vine and fig tree with no one to make them afraid. Matthew 24 tells us how to live in the gap between the ache and the promise. There will be wars, deception, and pressure, and the love of most will grow cold. But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.

One thread ties all of this together. God isn't blind to injustice and He isn't late in dealing with it. He sees it, He is coming, and until then He asks His people to stand firm.

So where does this leave us today?

First, bring God one unfair situation that's still unresolved. Tell Him plainly how it looks from where you're standing. You don't need polished words for that.

Second, guard your own heart against growing cold. Think of someone you've become indifferent toward, and do something warm and deliberate for them today.

Third, ask what you'd change if you knew Christ were returning within the year. Pick one of those changes and start it today.

Wherever today takes you, hold onto this. God's silence is not His absence. So live today as though He sees everything and is coming back, because He does and He is.

Thank you for joining me today. May the Lord give you endurance in the waiting, warmth toward the people around you, and confidence that He has not forgotten. Until tomorrow, stand firm and trust the God who sees.