Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
In its original setting the verse points to Judah's coming dark days when only a remnant would remain in the land, the polluted land being no longer a place of rest and bringing destruction. A life separated from God and turned to sin is polluted, so it is no true place of rest and leads to destruction, even grievous destruction. The verse speaks as a distinct and clear voice from God to the heart of one who has chosen his own way and wandered far from God. It addresses one who tried to feast on transgression only to find it turn to ashes, whose substance is spent, whose plans are thwarted and hopes are dead, and who sits alone and desolate.
The verse commands such a sinner to arise and depart from that defiled condition rather than remaining in sin. It calls him to return to the Father and to the Father's house. The warning is also an invitation, because return brings redemption and life with a Father who has redeemed the sinner and welcomes him.
This earth is not the resting place of Christians, much less of chosen ministers of God. Therefore preachers must be wholly given to God's work, not seeking an easier lot or a less self-denying position, but willing to be separated from their families and to endure hardship without regard for personal convenience. They are to follow the pattern of earlier servants who wept and prayed for truth and suffered privation and self-denial to carry it to others. They are to follow Christ who left heavenly riches and glory to come to earth to die, to love one another after His example, and to remember those reckoned unworthy by the world who wandered afflicted and tormented in sheepskins and goatskins.