Article December 26, 1931 Issue

The True Standard

JESSIE LOUISE SALLS

The prophet Micah, conscious of the one pure standard of national and religious integrity, was impelled to utter his protest against the dangers into which he saw his countrymen falling. In simple terms he told them what God demanded of them: "He hath shewed 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?" Then he went on to show them definitely the results of disobeying God's simple demands.

It is highly probable that to his listeners the words sounded like thunder, for Micah told them that false measures and wicked balances were abominable. And he referred to some of their national sins when he said, "For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels."

Worship of Baal was prevalent in the land of Canaan. Omri's political measure of making an alliance with a land which worshiped Baal, and Ahab's marriage with Jezebel, a daughter of a high priest of the heathen cult, opened Israel to the influences of a depraved manner of living; and the people suffered from sensual and worldly thinking. Micah saw that for his people the only safety lay in the pure worship of the only God. They could not mix their standards with those of the heathen world without becoming weak.

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