May the mumbling commence!
What a bane to be a leader or a prophet guided by the whims of the people! Beware if you are a people pleasing type of person and in a spiritual leadership position. (I especially need to hear these words – I am both a people pleaser and in a spiritual leadership position.) Read Micah 2:11 –
If a liar and deceiver comes and says,
'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,'
he would be just the prophet for this people!
The liar and deceiver would prophesy to the peoples’ appetites. Let us try not to be prophets of the bar tap rather than prophets of the Lord. Another way of distorting the word of God is being a paid prophet. Read from Micah Chapter 3:
"As for the prophets
who lead my people astray,
if one feeds them,
they proclaim 'peace';
if he does not,
they prepare to wage war against him.
Therefore night will come over you,
without visions, and darkness, without divination.
The sun will set for the prophets,
and the day will go dark for them.
The seers will be ashamed
and the diviners disgraced.
They will all cover their faces
because there is no answer from God." (Verses 5b-7)
Do we say to people if they feed us, “You will have peace?” But, then, do we turn on them when they do not and proclaim war? If we refuse to practice the spiritual disciplines of knowing the Lord, we will find ourselves in a fast that we may not recognize – a fast from the nourishment of the word of the Lord. But business will go on as usual. Read from another passage of Micah Chapter 3:
Her leaders judge for a bribe,
her priests teach for a price,
and her prophets tell fortunes for money.
Yet they lean upon the Lord and say,
"Is not the Lord among us?
No disaster will come upon us."
Therefore because of you,
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets. (Verses 11-12)
The fact that we are false – liars and deceivers – will come out because what we prophesy will not come true. Help us, O Holy Spirit, to see the world through the eyes of Jesus – that is the true prophetic message. The message of Jesus must be preached even unto those who do not want to hear it. May I be faithful to this task! You, O God, call me to be faithful, not successful in the eyes of the world.
Enough mumbling for today…
Peace Out
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