Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, since I have a Levite as priest!" – Judges 17v13
Micah was really missing the boat. He had hired a priest and assumed that because he had a priest God would surely bless him. He had totally forgotten about the need for a personal thriving relationship with God. Instead of allowing God into his life he hired a priest and his idols to come and live in his house and now everything would be fine and he would be blessed.
You would think so. And yet, how many times do we get caught in the same trap? How often do we think that if we go to the right church or read the right Bible or do the right things or don’t do the wrong things or wear the right clothes or have the right haircut or listen to the right music then we surely must be okay with God? We may not hire priests or have visible idols, but we have our idols nonetheless and we think that the Lord will surely be good to us because we do it right.
Micah had it totally wrong, that is obvious to us. It is not so obvious though when we do the same thing. Micah should have thought more about doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly before his God.
So should we.
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