Year 6, Day 242: Micah 2

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Discipleship Focus: Appetite

• Appetite: We all have needs that need to be filled.  When we allow ourselves to be filled with the people and things that God brings into our life, we will be satisfied because our In will be in proper focus.  But when we try to fill ourselves with our own desires we end up frustrated by an insatiable hunger.

Micah 2 continues its declaration against the people.  In the beginning verses, we hear the continued theme of people willing to take advantage of others.  Micah accuses people of lying in bed and contemplating ways that they can oppress them.  What’s worse is that when they wake up, these people go about the business of enacting on their plans!  They covet the fields of others.  They seize houses away from their rightful owners.  They oppress people.

A little later on in Micah 2:11, we get another vivid example of God’s opinion of the people.  God says through Micah that if there was a person who would preach to them on wine and other alcohol, the people would listen to them!  In other words, God is accusing the people of only wanting to listen to people who will encourage them to pursue the things that they want to pursue.  In other words, the people are only interested in their own appetites.

It is sad when a culture falls into pursuing their own desires.  It is sad when a culture allows the rich and wealthy and well-blessed to plot the oppression of the poor and scantily blessed.  Our human appetite can cause us to justify many things in our mind, all of which God finds deplorable if our appetite is for things that are not of Him.

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