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Micah 5 is the announcement that a messiah is coming from Bethlehem to save not just the Israelites, but all humanity. Sometimes we rely too much on our own self-sufficiency in the wake of leaving God behind. Micah is reminding us, that we are indeed in need of a savior.

As we continue in our journey through the prophet of Micah, we come to the point in the narrative where exile to Babylon is imminent. The reality is that this is painful, but it is also not the end goal for God and his plan. Rather, his faithfulness is that he promises to be with us and carry us through exile, to the other side.

When we experience dark times, we get to look back to the death and resurrection of Jesus, and allow the hope of his coming back to meet us in the middle of the pain and carry us through.

Joey continues our series in the prophet of Micah. Chapter 3 brings more warnings to the corrupted leaders of Israel and Judah, this time getting very specific about how they are using their power to work against God's vulnerable. Micah is posing the question to us, Do we realize what our influence means to others?

Bearing the image of God is a high calling, but through the resurrected power of the messiah that Micah was pointing to, we as the followers of Jesus have his Spirit to animate us toward living out our calling that God gave to us.

Micah continues his harsh warnings in Chapter 2 against the leaders of Israel, imploring them to stop oppressing the vulnerable, and for the prophets to stop giving false testimony of God.

If part one is about our calling to love God, part two for Micah and the scriptures are about our calling to love others. Chapter 2 ends with our hope that we look to, as we look to the one true Shepherd King as our model of loving God and loving others.

We are starting a new series in the book of Micah. The prophets are a mouthpiece for God and they are mostly concerned with Israel staying true to their covenantal partnership with God: to love God and to love others. Except we often want to create gods in our own image, and this causes a rift in our relationship with God. He is calling us back to Himself, to place God back on the throne of our lives.

God is a generous host, that is pleased to give us his Kingdom, and yet most of the time our lived experience may tell us otherwise. Therefore Jesus invites us into his worldview, where through relationship with Him, His Church, and ourselves brings us closer to his Kingdom of generosity.