Micah:
Justice & Restoration

Be thoughtful:
How can you be faithful to God’s call on your life?
How is your life honoring God?

“Divine judgment is not merely to the nations outside of the covenant community. It particularly pertains to the covenant community itself as the Lord will hold this unique people accountable for their covenant responsibilities of fidelity to God and to neighbor.”
-Timothy M. Green

“The ruined city becomes the restored city. The people in exile become a people who return. A humble king and community replace the self-serving, abusive ruling class. The ‘Jacob community’ that had disintegrated becomes a restored and enlivened community that trusts its covenant God alone.”
-Timothy M. Green

“...this call to remembrance particularly means that the people are to ‘identify fully with the ancient stories, to know that they are not remote tales from long ago but are living examples of the ongoing presence and power of God in every age”
-Daniel J. Simundson

remembrance means “to recall the past and confront it as present reality, to live and think by events whose force continues from the past into the present”
-James Luther Mays

“The Lord has revealed His nature through the concrete, historical acts of deliverance and provision.”
-Timothy M. Green

“This God is not simply the highest ideal that the human mind can conceive. [He] has acted in definitive ways to save His people from oppression and to provide for them in times of need...Anything short of justice, fidelity, and a humble walk with God fails to fulfill the divine intention for the human race.”
-Timothy M. Green

“The worshipper cries out concerning the distress. The focus of the despair is upon the sense of isolation and the incapacity to place trust in both family and neighbor...The one in anguish declares the intent to wait patiently upon Yahweh’s action.”
-Timothy M. Green

Final Thoughts:
-God is the Source of All
-God expects justice from all people
-God hears our lament & weakness
-God is the Answer

Act on It
-What concrete actions show your faithfulness to God?
-What needs to change to honor Him with your life?

Receive His Mercy
We receive these elements in remembrance of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for us