Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, March 6 (22:14)
“And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me that will I speak”―1 Kings 22:14.
IT was nobly said. Micaiah’s faithfulness stands out in vivid contrast to good king Jehoshaphat’s temporizing with evil by his association with ungodly Ahab. When the prophet was urged to prophesy smooth things so as to curry favor with the wicked king of Israel he refused to compromise and to play fast and loose with God’s truth. He was under orders as a soldier of the Lord and he felt he could only obey his Captain. As a steward of a divine revelation he must be found faithful, He got a prison for his pains, but Micaiah in jail made a greater figure in the sight of God than Jehoshaphat in the robes of Ahab!
—Barbara Cornet Ryberg.