Micah chapter 7

Micah looked around and could not find even one honest man. There was corruption everywhere and all the godly people had disappeared. He could have been talking about the world today, where it is not unknown for leaders to browbeat the opposition, kill or attack their opponents and have an election where they are the only candidate. Biblical principles are ignored, the bible is compromised, watered down, to fit in with the world today and political correctness rules. Even priests condone things that are forbidden in the bible, saying it only applied to Old Testament time, and that God didn't mean for it to be a sin, or something was just for the Early Church and doesn't apply to us.

As it says in my study bible, the standards of honesty come from God not society. We can't go ahead and do something just because we feel like it or because everyone else is doing it, or because we have "a right to be happy." We have to follow God, to obey Him to act as He would have us act (act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God), to be the truth setters for the nations, the peoples of this world and not to compromise our biblical principles just to fit in, to avoid giving offence to others. We need to do it in love, not hate (hate the sin, love the sinner) because we are each guilty of our own sins, the mean and nasty things we have each done, and since we have been forgiven by God, washed clean in the blood of the Lamb, then how can we not extend the same compassion and forgiveness to others, no matter who they are or what they have done?

We need to have faith and trust in God, and I admit, this is harder to do some days than others, when your whole world is crashing down around you, where is God then? He is right beside you, me, crying with us, grieving with us, holding us up, comforting us, and yes, the bad things may not go away, we may not magically be cured of cancer or whatever, we may not suddenly find a very healthy bank balance, the wind and the rain may still continue to pour down, but God will never, ever, ever, leave us and when He seems far away, we are the ones who have moved.