Walking Humbly

He has showed you, O man, 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

 It amazes me how little attention this verse gets…here it is, written out, the answer to all our questions: what does the Lord require?

To act justly
To love mercy
To walk humbly with your God

To best understand this text, I suggest working in reverse. Whereas our minds – trained in the Western scientific method – tend to work from cause to effect, the prophets often “[depicted] a scene in such a way that their listeners were led to inquire, ‘Why did this happen?’ This question led them back to the cause.”[1]

So let us start with the cause of all things – that which we find at the end of this text: GOD.

What does it mean to walk with God? It seems a simple and insignificant thing, but things happen when people walk with God…