Micah Review

We will now look at some of the lessons that we learn from Micah.  The first thing we have to acknowledge as always is that this is not just a book of history, but the lessons still apply today.  The Bible is the guidebook for God's people for all time.  That said, we can then state that just saying we are God's people is not enough to bring God's redemption and protection.  We must live by faith in God and not go our own way proclaiming to be His while living by some other standard.  In Micah's day, those who were called God's people were living in sin and idolatry, looking to the powers of the world for protection.  There are those people today who profess to be Christians but live in the same manner as the rest of the world.  As God's people, we are called to a higher standard.  Like God's chosen people in Micah's day, we are called to proclaim God to the world as we serve Him.  We cannot allow our relationship to God to allow us to feel that we are somehow superior to other people, deserving of God's redemption and protection because of the family we are born in to or because of any righteousness of our own.  We also know that those who deny the very existence of God will one day encounter Him.  Unfortunately for them, it will be an encounter with God without the intervention of Christ on their part.  We also know that God's word is not just for a particular group of people at a particular time, but that it is recorded so that we can learn from it today.  We also see that hypocrisy only leads to destruction.  If we allow idols, which is really anything that we place between God and us, to enter our lives as God's people, then we cannot effectively serve God.  One day, even though we are saved, those things that come between God and us will be destroyed.