"They covet fields and seize them,and houses and take them.They defraud a man of his home,a fellowman of his inheritance."
Micah prophecies against the moral bankruptcy of an age that "worships" but does not live according to His will. God wants our hearts more than our presence in the pews. This prophecy and this passage from it could have been written for our time. We live in a time when we've reaped the rewards of our greed. I believe our recent financial collapse, because it was precipitated by our own greed, is a word from the Lord. But one of the blessings I see in it is that people are looking to what is really important -- home, family, simple pleasures -- and not to what their money can buy. Today I happened to see a copy of Success magazine and on the cover was a picture of actor and Parkinson's disease victim Michael J. Fox for a story on what's really important. It's a sign of the times.
Times are good because our God is good.
Lord knows.
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