Finding Hope in a Disintegrating World
Finding Hope in a Disintegrating World Micah 7:1-7 “But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation My God will hear me.” Micah saw the world around him collapsing. No longer were people pursuing righteousness. No longer were they seeking to obey God. As Micah looks about him, he feels like a fruit picker who enters the harvest fields and finds the harvest barren (vs. 1). He laments that the godly have perished from the land. There is no longer any upright person (vs. 2). Instead of pursuing righteousness, they have embraced evil (vs. 3). Even the family was collapsing as children rejected the instruction of their parents (vs. 6). As we look about us, the condition of Micah’s day parallels our own. No longer are people pursuing the truth. Biblical morality, which has served as the bedrock of our society for generations, is now rejected as old-fashioned as we embrace immorality. In Romans 1:32, Paul descri