If you ever want to test your marriage, renovate your kitchen. You can fail, but when you fail to Failure you make it 100 time worse. Micah's job was to point out other peoples' failures; tough love. He tells them how they should respond after their failure. This message is for us today as we struggle in our sins. Micah points out the proper response to our failures.
There are a couple of ways we fail to failure:
1) We do not acknowledge our failures; we hide from our sins. Our Christianity becomes our walk with the Lords name stamped on it. We become professional Christians, the hypocrites. Micah will bear the wrath of God, completely acknowledge his and Israel's sins. When we mess up, we look around to see who noticed, then cover up our failure. Sin is not the failure, but when we don't look to the Lord after the sin, that is when you are a failure.
2) We fail at Failure when we don't accept the Lord's restoration. We sit in darkness, feeling disqualified from being a Christians, because we have not allowed God to restore us. Because I have sinned against him I will bear the Lord's wrath, until He will plead our case. Let Him vindicates us. He will take us out into the light, justified by the Lord. Do not let sin become a way of life.
Bold Brokenness, where we find ourselves completely broken before the Lord, Repenting, going the other way. By boldly declaring our failures we allow God to cleans us. We thing that when we sin, the enemy winds, but sin is part of our nature. It's when we fail at failure, we let the enemy win. God is glorified when we humble ourselves and come to that place of brokenness.
