Oh my good news! I am reading the prophet Micah this morning and it is telling the story of a people who have gotten themselves knee deep into idolatry, falsehood, deception, I mean they are in a mess. Micah even says in chapter 2 “If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,’ He would be spokesman to this people.” Now that is not a compliment to the people of God to whom Micah is speaking, but it was the reality they were living in.

People do not like to be confronted on their “stuff”. Most people are not lovers of the truth, that is why they do not want you to tell them the truth about who they are. It is as though we have learned to function in our dysfunction so we do not want to change our function. Sin is a destroyer, no matter what the sin is, but we don’t want to hear the truth about sin, our attitude, who we are hurting, how we are self-sabotaging, none of it. Just tell me I am seen, heard and loved just as I am and I will be fine. This is what was happening in Israel and Judah while Micah prophesied.

Then all of the sudden, seemingly out of nowhere, Micah, speaking for the Lord says, ““I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men. “The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the LORD at their head” (Micah 2:12-13). God gathered them like sheep in a fold, then went before them to break them out! I see a gathering taking place of people who are scattered and God is about to do a jail break from the bondage, dysfunction, the disasters they are in. This is not unbelievers, this is a jail break for Christians who are in sin. Oh my good news, this is what God is about to do!