This verse from chapter 6 of Micah is one of my favorites:
He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
So often I hear people say they wish God would have just spelled it out for them....just tell them what they are supposed to do. Well, here it is:
1. Do Justice (God's justice which is always communal, not simply personal)
2. Love Kindness
3. Walk humbly with your God
There it is. Spelled out in black and white. But, oh, not so easy.
To do justice is to consider the needs of others and work for their safety and security, not simply our own. To love kindness means we have to take action for the benefit of the other---all others---even the annoying, those who have hurt us, and our enemy. To walk humbly with God means that we must accept that we are dependent on God. God is God and we are not. God is our Master and Lord, not our schedule, our pocketbook, or our pleasure.
This Advent, let's choose one way---one thing we can do---to accomplish God's request for us. Let's intentionally make this choice, and follow through on it, throughout this season of preparing for Jesus coming into our heart. Repentance starts with one step.
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