WEDNESDAY Micah 5:1-4
• Okay, Bethlehem we know, but what’s this “Ephrathah”? It means “fruitful,” and was the name of the district around Bethlehem. Like the gospel writers centuries later, Micah stressed God’s ability to do big things in people and settings that seemed insignificant. When have you seen God do something big through something “little”?
• Micah said the coming ruler would “shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD…And they will live securely.” Early Christians, even when the Roman Empire imprisoned or killed
them, still saw Jesus in this prophecy. How were they “living securely”? In what ways does security in Christ differ from the ways we usually define “security”?
Reflection by Chris:
I am blown away in the way that God can take the smallest thing and make it into something life changing. I remember one time when I was hiking with my daughter and I was trying to get to the place where we were going to eat our “picnic” snack. She kept stopping and looking at the little things on the ground. Finally, I slowed down too and we talked about the bugs and the rocks and the other things. She said “wow, God made that?”
I responded “Yeah, and all of the big stuff too. What do you think about that?”
“It’s ok but I really like that God made the litte things, because I am little and that means he made me.”
I was blown away…God is good.