Walk Humbly With God
God, What Do You Expect From Me?
“Walk Humbly With God”
Micah 6:1-8 (New Revised Standard Version)
Hear what the Lord says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. “O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me! For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.” “With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” 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?
“God! What do you expect from me?!”
Micah, the prophet is trying to respond to the people of Judah who knew they had messed up, they knew they were not living for God, and they knew God was angry with them.
The people know they have messed up and want to make it up to God.
Micah 6:8 is God’s answer for how they can make it up.
Walk Humbly With God
In Hebrew, the word humble means, “The lowering of oneself,” or “to make oneself lower than another.”
One way that you might could think about this is in the physical and literal sense of lowering one’s body in a way that places emphasis on someone else.
The idea of kneeling at the altar and bowing one’s head is to show reverence or respect to God.
It also means to lower oneself in service to Christ.
Walking humbly with God is not merely something we do once or twice a day, it is a lifestyle.
Sanctification; Sanctifying Grace
Through God’s sanctifying grace, we grow and mature in our ability to live as Jesus lived. As we pray, study the Scriptures, fast, worship, and share in fellowship with other Christians, we deepen our knowledge of and love for God. As we respond with compassion to human need and work for justice in our communities, we strengthen our capacity to love neighbor. Our inner thoughts and motives, as well as our outer actions and behavior, are aligned with God’s will and testify to our union with God. -John Wesley
Even Jesus humbled himself before God.
The world has never known a greater example of humbleness, love, and humility, than when God, through Jesus, knelt down and washed the dirty feet of His own creation.