Micah chapter six, verse eight. A very famous passage that
reads like this: "He has shown all you people what is good. And what does the
Lord require of you? This is what's good.
What does the Lord require of you? "To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with your God."
That's what the Lord requires of you. To act justly,
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
What does the Lord require of thee? To act justly. That means to live with
a view towards justice, to promote justice. It means to confront justice and to
confront oppression. It means to live in a way where you strive to alleviate inequities.
That's what it is to live justly.
To love mercy. Mercy has the connotation of, on the one hand, of forgiveness
where you give someone not what they deserve but, rather, you express kindness towards
them, but also has the general connotation of just being compassionate, to have
mercy on someone who is less fortunate than you. It's to be compassionate. What
does the Lord require of us? To act justly, to love compassion. Not just be compassionate
but to love being compassionate and merciful.
And then, to walk humbly. To walk humbly means you just walk in a way that's
free of arrogance, free of judgmentalism, and free of self righteousness. That's
what the Lord requires of you. Act justly, be compassionate, and be humble.
The above is a quote by Greg Boyd from his sermon, Seeing What God Sees, 4th October
2009.
http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/sermon/seeing-what-god-sees
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