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Do Justice, Embrace Faithful Love, & Walk Humbly With Your God


"He has told you, human one, what is good and what the Lord requires from you: to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God."
Micah 6:8 (CEB)

As followers of Jesus Christ, we believe that we receive salvation by grace through faith apart from works.  However, we do good works as a result of our faith.  It is out of our gratitude to God for the great and amazing things that he has done for us that we do good works in the world.

In this passage, the prophet Micah is telling the people of Israel how God is calling us to live as a response to his goodness towards his people.  We should not get hung up on the word "require" because we know that as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, this is what we want to do whether or not is is required.

Out of a response to God's goodness towards us, we are called to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with our God.  We are called to seek out justice in this world at all levels and to do what we can to fix them.  We are called to embrace faithful love by accepting Christ's love for us (mercy) and sharing it with others in the things we say and do.  Finally, we are called to walk humbly with our God.  Throughout the Bible, God rails against the proud and continuously calls Israel to humble themselves.

This week, let's choose to respond to Christ's gift of salvation by doing justice, embracing faithful love, and walking humbly with our God!
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