A Few Good Men

by: Mark Fackler

The famous Rob Reiner film A Few Good Men looks at the Marine Corps in the same search for integrity that Micah describes here. In the film, it’s the notorious Colonel Jessup who has forgotten that he himself is a man under orders, accountable to a country of law and justice. A Navy lawyer works to expose Jessup’s dark world of military cover-up and shine the light of truth.

Micah paints a similar picture of Jerusalem in moral and spiritual darkness. Who can lead the people? The courts are lost to bribe (v. 3). The godly and upright have disappeared (v. 2). The leaders have taken to claiming that righteousness is whatever they say it is. To Micah, the people are as sweet as a rotten onion, as reliable as a broken ladder, and as friendly as a brier stuck in the back of your pants.

Even family relationships are broken. You can’t trust friends or neighbors or even your own spouse (v. 5). Kids have turned against parents, and your family is your own worst enemy (v. 6). This scene is complete family breakdown, with no easy sitcom ending.

Yet there is hope. “But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me” (v. 3).