Proclamation:
“He has shown you, O mortal,
what is good. And what does The Lord
require of you? To act justly and to
love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8 (NIV)
Explanation:
These words were written
under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God by the prophet Micah to the
people of God. In the previous two
verses (Micah 6:6-7) he makes it clear what God does not want from His people. In the verses which follow he list the sins of
Israel and then spells out the punishment which they will receive for their
sins. (Micah 6:9-16)
Application:
What does man have to do to
please God? Put another way, what does
God require of man? This rhetorical
question was asked by Micah because the people of Israel should have known what
God wanted from them. God wanted a
spiritual commitment that was sincere and from the heart, from which right
behavior would result. That is what God
wanted from them back then and that is what He wants from us today. He wants us to believe and obey His
Word. He wants us to love our fellow man
as we love ourselves. He wants us to
walk humbly in this world as we follow Him.
Our problem is not a lack of knowledge regarding what The Lord God wants
for us. Our problem is that we are so
caught up in pleasing ourselves and doing what we want that we don’t do what He
wants us to do. We need to put God first.
(Matthew 6:33) We need to humble
ourselves, and pray, and seek The Lord God, and stop our self-indulgent sinful
ways, then we would be able to do what He requires of us and we would be blessed
for doing so. (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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