What does God want from us?

He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? – Micah 6v8

We cannot of course build an entire theology around one verse. We can’t take any one verse and say ‘if you do this you will fulfil all that God wants you to do.’ We can however look at passages like this and see what kind of things God wants from His people.

‘What is good? What does the Lord require of you?’

I think these are questions we would all like to have an answer to.  And here we have a good place to start.

1)  Do justly

2)  Love mercy

3)  Walk humbly with your God

If one were looking for a few character traits to work on in order to live a godly live justice, mercy, and humility would not be a bad place to start. Justice is simply treating people rightly. Mercy is not responding to people badly even if they ‘deserve’ it. Humility means putting me last on the list.

As a matter of fact, I think if I could get those three traits down nearly everything else would follow.