He hath showed thee, O man
Mic 3:6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Gen 46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Men may have designs and plans for life, but each and all are subject to the Will of God. If it pleases Providence to send a people down into Egypt, there is nothing that can prevent it - and not one man, but his entire seed! Likewise, no matter a man be a great prophet - what He gives He can take away, and worse, leave a man in darkness, groping blind and ignorant. Maybe it pleases Him or maybe our fellow sufferers are in need to learn from these events. We can only say that the feeling and sense of security in familiar surroundings is as fragile as life itself. We are instructed to love the Lord, yet like the prophets that make people err or the children of Jacob, being but children of Adam we delight in our own vain desolation. And out of that mire of self-will and vanity we are brought to account, to know in our conscience the Lord God, to be not conformed to this world but transformed and renewed, cleaving to the Good.
Mic 6:8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Gen 46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Men may have designs and plans for life, but each and all are subject to the Will of God. If it pleases Providence to send a people down into Egypt, there is nothing that can prevent it - and not one man, but his entire seed! Likewise, no matter a man be a great prophet - what He gives He can take away, and worse, leave a man in darkness, groping blind and ignorant. Maybe it pleases Him or maybe our fellow sufferers are in need to learn from these events. We can only say that the feeling and sense of security in familiar surroundings is as fragile as life itself. We are instructed to love the Lord, yet like the prophets that make people err or the children of Jacob, being but children of Adam we delight in our own vain desolation. And out of that mire of self-will and vanity we are brought to account, to know in our conscience the Lord God, to be not conformed to this world but transformed and renewed, cleaving to the Good.
Mic 6:8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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