All of Us

Micah 1:2-3

“Hear, you people, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.”

Many of us hear the prophet, the teacher, the pastor, the priest, the preacher, but do we pay attention?  It is a simple answer, no we do not, we hear the words but often we are hoping someone else is taking the message to heart.  If that describes you, you’re in great company, for the Christian churches are full of self-righteous people who do not understand when the prophet says, “all of you”, he had all of us in mind.  If you are not a follower of Jesus Christ, has he not also included you when he states “O earth, and all that is in it and let the Lord God be a witness against you?”

I do not believe many of us who go by the label Christian or non-Christian would volunteer for the Lord to be a witness against us.  Give some thought to that statement, if the Lord is the chief witness in your life and He a witness against you, whom do you run to, to whom will you turn for a defense?

The people of Micah’s time are much like the people who call themselves Christian in our time they not only do not stand against evil but have entered into agreement with evil.  When we look at the church today it is often quiet on what we might call social sins, like divorce, the church is now taking the lead on a higher average than the ones outside the church.  Where is the voice of today’s prophet, preacher, pastor, or teacher on the killing of life inside of the mother?  Why is the church so quiet with some exception on the sin of homosexuality?  And what is going on with the market place, with its strong stands against family, and for marriage between the same gender, and it boldness to take a stand for sin, and the church is quiet?  “Hear, you people, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.” 

Could it be stated that once again the world’s system has so invaded the church, the body of Christ, that we need Jesus to come into our temples and turn over the tables that are full of evil in our hearts and minds, in our thinking, and to repent before He witnesses against us.  Compliance is agreement, when we know what is right and do nothing to oppose it, or we not by our actions taking the side of evil, or we not standing on sinking ground?  “But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

(2 Timothy 2:19)

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice