These prophets learn their speech from God. Their words are God-grounded,
God-energized, God-passionate. As their words enter the language of our communities, men and women find themselves in the presence of God,
who enters the mess of human sin to rebuke and to renew.

Left to ourselves we turn God into an object, something we can deal with, some thing we can use to our benefit, whether that thing is a feeling or an idea or an image. 1

Eugene Peterson, The Message: Introduction to the Book of Micah