Micah 6:2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Maybe you have seen the old black and white Perry Mason courtroom drama. It is essentially a mystery disguised as a courtroom drama where you have a defendant, a prosecutor, and a defense attorney, and you find out who was guilty. Oftentimes it is some horrible crime and you are figuring out in the courtroom who actually committed the crime according to the evidence. That is not what you find in Micah. The one who is guilty is very clear and the One Who is holy is most clear, yet God is holding a courtroom drama.
Micah 6:2 says, “Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people and he will plead with Israel.” Now God is impossibly perfect, and His people were terribly wrong. They were following evil men like Omri and Ahab. They were doing wickedly.
God had an open and shut case. He calls the very earth before Him as a witness in this courtroom drama. Yet, God is pleading with them. This has the idea of a tender appeal. Have you ever reasoned with someone who did not deserve it? You didn’t have to reason with them because it was an open and shut case. It was obvious, yet you were gentle with them. That‘s the way God was. He was pleading with people who had done wrong in an open and shut way, yet the word “plead” has the idea of “to be right.” God was right, yet He was tender with them.
What follows is God saying, literally, “Testify against Me. What have I done that you begrudge? Was it when I brought you out of Egypt? Was it when I protected you from Balak, king of Moab? What have I done that will make you know the righteousness of the Lord?” The bottom line is that God has not done you wrong.
If you could see the big picture, perhaps you’d know that. But, we don’t know the big picture. We can’t see everything so we are compelled to trust that God’s heart toward us is good. In short, we are wrong when we live as though God has done us wrong.
Many an atheist is not convinced that he is an atheist. Now are there some who totally disbelieve in God? Yes, that may be, but it is amazing how many totally angry atheists there are. As if I would be angry with the man in the moon, though I know he doesn’t exist. I wouldn’t be. I might be dismissive, but I wouldn’t be angry. So, I’ve known people who claim to be atheist, yet they are angry because they feel God has done them wrong. That is often because someone who represents God horribly has been wrong and the atheist attributes that to God.
Friend, only God is God, and no matter how He has been presented to you, God is righteous, holy, and merciful. God is good! In short, when I sin against Him, it is a personal matter. When I look on things on my phone that I ought not, when I do wrong towards others, when I stretch the truth, those are things that God takes personally. God is as immense as the universe, yet He cares about us.
I don’t know what’s happened in your life, and you don’t know what will happen in your life tomorrow. But we are wrong when we live as though God has done us wrong. God made you, God loves you, and God will not do you wrong.