- Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height. Micah 3:12 – Don’t ever begin to believe your faithfulness today has no impact on the future. Here the prophet was speaking to God’s people, calling them to repent like so many of the prophets that went to Israel did over the centuries. Something beautiful though we see unfold with this message of Micah is that it was listened to and followed. We learn from scripture that King Hezekiah and the people of Judah heeded the words of the prophet Micah. Jeremiah 26:17-19 tells us of this time, how the king and the people listened and turned from their sin. The Lord then turned from the disaster that He was to bring upon them. Even a hundred years after the life of Micah the faithfulness of King Hezekiah to the Lord’s word from Micah had an impact. Know your faithfulness can have an impact that will span the centuries. You saying no to that sin and ending it’s reign in your family line matters. You choosing to make your faith the most important thing to you will touch the lives around you and the lives after you. You saying yes to God’s call today will send ripples for many years to come. No, you may not always see the impact. The impact may even come a century after you pass from this life, but that just shows how great our God is and how essential our faithful living today is. If God can use one faithful choice from a king to impact a nation a century later, imagine what God can do with an entire life that is wholly devoted to Him? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3305
- Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them; the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God. But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. Micah 3:6-8 – God says His Word will be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. Here in today’s passage we see the lostness leaning on other powers than God will bring into your life. Yet we also see how full following God makes someone. As we continue more throughout these minor prophets remember their purpose was to turn the people back to God. Everyday we are faced with the choice to follow God or not. Remind yourself as we read on to see how chasing and devoting our lives to anything other to God will leave us lost and empty yet following God will bring the direction and purpose we’re looking for. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 664
- Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths. Micah 3:5 – This chapter is coming down hard on the prophets and leaders of God’s people who were leading the people far from God. Here God highlights how these prophets would speak good messages to those who gave them things and messages of wrath on those who held back things from them. These prophets used the power they had of being a mouthpiece of God to benefit themselves rather than guide God’s people in the ways of the Lord. One way I see this passage applying to us is we need to be careful to not bestow what God has called us to bestow on people that only “deserve it” according to our eyes. Whether it’s forgiveness, love, direction, or the message of the Gospel, we shouldn’t be determining whether they get a chance to receive these things from us based on how they treat us. If God has called us to bestow these things on others, then we bestow these on others. This Christian walk should not be used as a means of getting what we want from others but a means of pouring out on others what they need. How then have you been dictating what other’s receive from you when God has already directed you on this? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2095
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