Micah 3:9-10 Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right; who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
For years I have had a FitBit. It’s a watch, an alarm, a fitness tracker, a sleep tracker. I use it in all these capacities. Yesterday, the band broke, rendering it useless until I can get a new band. It made me angry, anxious, agitated. How am I going to tell the time, track my sleep or steps, set my alarm when school starts back? I worked myself onto a metaphorical ledge because of the value I placed on a FitBit. Jesus, Help me.
Micah 3:11a Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money.
What does any of this have to do with Micah 3? I put all that faith in a watch. They put their faith in the priests and prophets. Micah’s point here is that those priests and prophets are no longer relying on God, they are self-motivated, and it is going to lead them, all of them, to destruction if they don’t make a change, if they don’t wake up and see that they have placed their faith in man and not God.
Micah 3:11b Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.”
Lord, Thank You that You allow me to see how the mess in my own life is similar to the mess that people slog through in the Bible. Thank You for reminding me that You are my center, that nothing and no one else can or should take that place. Draw me closer to You always. Amen.
Micah 3:12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
Have a blessed day.