A controversy with His people

 Mic 6:1  Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 

Mic 6:2  Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. 

Mic 6:3  O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. 

The Lord has a controversy with His people, and The very earth He has created is asked to hear the case of the Lord against the people of the Lord.

O my people what have I done unto thee? How many times do we ask this of God not realizing that He is asking this of us? How many times do we falsely rail and accuse God when it is we that are at fault?

Our pride, our comfort, our convenience, our will instead of His, all these things lead us out of fellowship and away from Him.

Mic 6:4  For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 

Mic 6:5  O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD. 

God is now stating His case, reminding them of what He has done for them, Telling where to go to get reminders of His Goodness towards them.

In verse 6 the prophet Micah tells what the Lord requires, perhaps we ought to pay attention. We are so quick to quote 2 Chronicles 7:14 but what about this passage where the people have gone astray? I do not know if you are aware of this but 2 Chron 7:14 was spoke in the night to Solomon and it was at the time of the Temple dedication when all of Israel worshipped God, not a time when they had all left the Lord and gone astray.

Mic 6:6  Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 

Mic 6:7  Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 

Mic 6:8  He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? 

To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. That is what God requires of Us. Wow. So simple. So easy in theory, right?

This is what God requires of His people. When He has ought against them this is what He requires to fix the fellowship, the situation.

To do justly (and by that it is His opinion of Justly, not man's) to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.

Remember in the garden in the cool of the evening when He came to walk with Adam? Remember when He walked with Enoch?

God wants to walk and talk with us. So many examples for us, yet we still try to rewrite the rules.

We do not need to try and reinvent the stone here, we just need to do what He has asked.

Humble, doing justly, walk with God, love Mercy. So many times this is said in the Bible yet we still want to do it our own way, add our own personal touch to it. God has never changed, His Doctrine is the same, His hatred of sin, and idolatry still the same.

We have changed, we have blurred the lines, we have stopped sin preaching, we have watered down doctrine and look where it has gotten us.

The rest of this chapter of Micah deals with the destruction of the wicked, perhaps America needs to wake up, remember God and what He has done for us.

Perhaps God's people in America need to do justly, love mercy and humbly walk with our God. Perhaps when the people of God get their own affairs, their own hearts, and their own relationship with God correct, then they can go out and try to lead the nation back to God.

Perhaps God's people need to pray more, watch the news less, testify and witness more, worry less. Perhaps if we spent more time in the church and less on the couch our God might meet with us again on our walks.