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**Micah 4:9** — *"Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?"*
The prophet speaks into a city unraveling — Jerusalem, stripped of her confidence, forgetting who dwells in her midst. The anguish is real. But Micah's words carry a pastoral edge: *the panic itself is the problem.* Not the circumstances. The forgetting.
When grief arrives — and it will — the soul tends to act as though the Shepherd has abdicated. As though the covenant has gone cold. As though the King has left the throne room.
He has not.
Scripture reminds us in Isaiah 9:6 that the government rests upon His shoulders — not ours. And in Psalm 46:1, God is named *our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.*
The counselor has not perished. The King remains.
Walk with that truth today, beloved, and let it steady what the anguish has unsettled.
The prophet speaks into a city unraveling — Jerusalem, stripped of her confidence, forgetting who dwells in her midst. The anguish is real. But Micah's words carry a pastoral edge: *the panic itself is the problem.* Not the circumstances. The forgetting.
When grief arrives — and it will — the soul tends to act as though the Shepherd has abdicated. As though the covenant has gone cold. As though the King has left the throne room.
He has not.
Scripture reminds us in Isaiah 9:6 that the government rests upon His shoulders — not ours. And in Psalm 46:1, God is named *our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.*
The counselor has not perished. The King remains.
Walk with that truth today, beloved, and let it steady what the anguish has unsettled.
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