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Podcast: Bret Hammond
Episode: God Calls us to Lament; Micah 1:1-9
Description: I had my regular check-up, and the doctor is happy with my blood pressure and cholesterol. He says I'm looking healthy, but there's just one problem. I'm not sad enough.
He's ordered sackcloth and ashes for me. Oh, and a viewing of "Old Yeller."
Ok, so it's absolutely ridiculous that a doctor would prescribe sadness, yet that's precisely what Micah prescribes for his people. His diagnosis is that they have abandoned God, and his remedy is "lament and wail" (Micah 1:8) and to shave their heads as a sign of mourning (verse 16). Micah's people need to learn how to be sad.
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