Read chapter 17
Micah is either completely ignorant or hypocritical. He had just made his own idol images and, having no reference to the Mosaic law, makes his own place of worship and regulations. He seems to think that God blesses him in this by sending him a Levite to be his priest. This superstition or justification of circumstances made him deceive himself in the ways of the Lord for his own gain. Matthew Henry comments,
"those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.""Everyone did what was right in his own eyes" (v.7) and this was no doubt the case with Micah, thinking he knew what was best and what pleased the Lord. What one person thinks is good the next doesn't. So true then and today too. On the flip side how often people today think the Lord will be good to them if they go to church, if they have a Bible in their house, if the feed the poor, etc. They may all be good things but we cannot earn God's favor for He loves us already. Micah 6:8 says, "He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?"
How has your own desires, or someone else you know, led to your or their own delusions in God's way or thoughts toward them?
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