Woe to evildoers
Day 459, Thursday, Nov. 13
Micah 1 – 2
Micah returns us to more traditional prophetic territory with warnings for those who do evil. While most of the prophets focus on systemic issues like justice and caring for the poor, Micah in chapter two starts off with evildoing that sounds more like the kinds of crimes committed by individuals.
In 2:1-2 we read, Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Also typical of the prophets, Micah does have words of hope: “I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people. The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.”

-Rev. Mark Fleming

Thursday meditation

Psalms 25:16-23
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish. Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. See how numerous are my enemies and how fiercely they hate me!
Guard my life and rescue me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.
Deliver Israel, O God, from all their troubles!

Prayer focus
Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.