September 5, 2021
Today we finished the summer series on the Old Testament. Micah 6:8 was our ending: …what does God require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God? (NRSV)
The people sought to restore their relationship with God and asked what they needed to do - make sacrifices, prepare burnt offerings, etc. The prophet reminds them, God does not want their sacrifices, God desires their love. Not only love of God, but love of neighbor, which is lived out in doing justice, loving kindness and walking humbly with God. When I wonder, then, what walking humbly with God looks like, I see it as trusting God and living into God’s covenant with humans as creator and Lord.
This is a tall order, one not able to be accomplished by humans on their own. We need God to help us walk humbly with God. Is trusting God to do that with and for us part of walking humbly with God?
This seemed to be a fitting end to our series. After all, over and over God is faithful, even when we are not. And, as it is in many things of faith, there are more questions than concrete answers. Walking humbly with God...hmmm?!
Blessings. And prayers.
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