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Walk
Humbly With Your God
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“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 6:8 NKJV
God
tells them plainly what he demands, and insists upon, from those that would be
accepted of him.
Let
their money perish with them that think the pardon of sin and the favour of God
may be so purchased; no, God has shown thee, O man! what is good. Here we are
told,
That
God has made a discovery of his mind and will to us, for the rectifying of our
mistakes and the direction of our practice.
It is
God himself that has shown us what we must do. We need not trouble ourselves to
make proposals, the terms are already settled and laid down.
He whom
we have offended, and to whom we are accountable, has told us upon what
conditions he will be reconciled to us.
It is
to man that he has shown it, not only to thee, O Israel! but to thee, O man!
Gentiles
as well as Jews-to men, who are rational creatures, and capable of receiving
the discovery, and not to brutes, to men, for whom a remedy is provided, not to
devils, whose case is desperate.
What is
spoken to all men every where in general, must by faith be applied to ourselves
in particular, as if it were spoken to thee, O man! by name, and to no other.
It is a
discovery of that which is good, and which the Lord requires of us.
He has
shown us our end, which we should aim at, in showing us what is good, wherein
our true happiness does consist; he has shown us our way in which we must walk
towards that end in showing us what he requires of us.
There
is something which God requires we should do for him and devote to him; and it
is good.
It is
good in itself; there is an innate goodness in moral duties, antecedent to the
command; they are not, as ceremonial observances, good because they are
commanded, but commanded because they are good, consonant to the eternal rule
and reason of good and evil, which are unalterable.
It has
likewise a direct tendency to our good; our conformity to it is not only the
condition of our future happiness, but is a great expedient of our present
happiness; in keeping God's commandments there is great reward, as well as
after keeping them.
It is shown
us. God has not only made it known, but made it plain; he has discovered it to
us with such convincing evidence as amounts to a demonstration.
Lo
this, we have searched it, so it is. What that discovery is.
The
good which God requires of us is not the paying of a price for the pardon of
sin and acceptance with God, but doing the duty which is the condition of our
interest in the pardon purchased.
We must
do justly, must render to all their due, according as our relation and
obligation to them are; we must do wrong to none, but do right to all, in their
bodies, goods, and good name.
We must
love mercy; we must delight in it, as our God does, must be glad of an
opportunity to do good, and do it cheerfully.
Justice
is put before mercy, for we must not give that in alms which is wrongfully got,
or with which our debts should be paid. God hates robbery for a burnt-offering.
We must
walk humbly with our God. This includes all the duties of the first table, as
the two former include all the duties of the second table.
We must
take the Lord for our God in covenant, must attend on him and adhere to him as
ours, and must make it our constant care and business to please him.
Enoch's
walking with God is interpreted (Hebrews 11:5) his pleasing God.
We
must, in the whole course of our conversation, conform ourselves to the will of
God, keep up our communion with God, and study to approve ourselves to him in
our integrity.
And
this we must do humbly (submitting our understandings to the truths of God and
our will to his precepts and providences).
We must
humble ourselves to walk with God (so the margin reads it); every thought
within us must be brought down, to be brought into obedience to God, if we
would walk comfortably with him.
This is
that which God requires, and without which the most costly services are vain
oblations; this is more than all burnt-offerings and sacrifices. - Matthew
Henry
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