Psalm 79
Micah 4:6-13
Revelation 18:1-10
Ninety-five
percent of the time a prophet speaks, the audience starts stocking up on willow
bark (a source of what we now call aspirin) because they knew celestial hurt
was coming. God mobilized His voices when the people strayed from Him and,
mostly, violated their duties to one another. Across the prophets we read
accounts of the grievous harm done to God – through the abuse of His people.
Micah was no
different – except he never forgets the restoration that is to come. Connecting
it to the familiar, and often deadly, pain of childbirth, he makes clear to the
people that great difficulties will come, but in the end God will still be with
His people and all human endeavor will be subsumed to God’s plan.
The pain is
real, but so is the hope.
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