How Do We Love Mercy, Do Justice & Walk Humbly with God?

Micah 6:8

8 He has shown you, O mortal, 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.

“How Do We Love Mercy, Do Justice & Walk Humbly with God?”

Week-end Reflection
This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God
is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer,
and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short,
to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us. 
Elisabeth Elliot

When I was in grade school I came down the stairs one morning and my mom looked at me and started to laugh (which is really helpful to a young kid's budding self-esteem!)  She asked, "did you look at yourself in the mirror today?"  I said, "No, I haven't."  Still laughing, she encouraged me to go look so I could see what she saw.  I went up the stairs to the bathroom and the face I saw looking back at me had blue ink all over it.  Somehow I had fallen asleep with a pen I was writing with the evening before and it broke open, saturating my face, my pillow, and my sheets.  I was a mess! 

There are times in our lives we need someone to point out what we can't see on our own.  We get caught up in going along in our routines that we might miss something very important!  It's an act of grace to point out those things that can hurt us in the long run.  We are about to embark on a wonderful study that will give us the opportunity to take a good look at ourselves and turn on the faucet of God's presence in our live so it might overflow to others around us! 

Big Picture
Much of Micah’s book revolves around two significant predictions: one of judgment on Israel and Judah (Micah 1-3), the other of the restoration of God’s people in his future kingdom (4:1–5:15). Judgment and restoration inspire fear and hope, two ideas wrapped up in the final sequence of Micah’s prophecy, a courtroom scene in which God’s people stand trial before their Creator for turning away from Him and from others (6:1–7:20). In this sequence, God reminds the people of His good works on their behalf, how He cared for them while they cared only for themselves. But rather than leave God’s people with the fear and sting of judgment, the book of Micah concludes with the prophet’s call on the Lord as his only source of salvation and mercy (7:7), pointing the people toward an everlasting hope in their everlasting God that he wants them to share with the world around them!
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Micah 6:8
John chapters 5-7
Jeremiah 9:7-24