Monday 25 Aug 2014

August 25: Micah 6:6-8

Key Verse: Micah 6:8
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?

Devotion:
Micah was given prophesy from God telling of the things that Israel were doing wrong and what they should not be doing. He was given reminders of what God had already done for them and this chapter starts off with the Lord asking Israel to say what was wrong with what He had done. We know that God did not do anything wrong and I’m sure that they did know that in their hearts as well, but they were not acting like that!

How many times do we start going off the rails because things are not going our own way? How many times do we go off and do our own thing because we can’t see why God has asked us to do something else. We do not have to understand why God has asked us to do everything, just be willing to listen to Him and obey Him. We don’t have to spend our whole day offering up sacrifices for the things that we have done wrong. We don’t have to do any of those things.

What is God asking us to do then? God is asking us to change your life to be more like a Christian life; to live a life more like Christ and less like the rest of the world. God is asking you to love the ways that Christ showed us to live and not to love the ways of the world. God is asking us not to boast about all that we have built up but rather to walk humbly with Him. And this is all quite a big ask for most modern young people because their world is build up in expectation of what the world has to offer over the next few days or even minutes!

God would rather that we aim for the long term goal with Him and not to live for the second expecting the world to change around us and expecting things from the world. The world is a corrupt place and the longer it lives as it is the more it will become corrupt. Being more Christ like means stepping back from those ways, the ways man has built up to satisfy himself, and walking with God and in His ways. I hope you don’t have that Veggie-Tales song stuck in your head today like I will have, but hey, if it reminds you to walk humbly with God then it is working!

Points to Ponder:
Do you live in the world?

Or do you try to live in Christ?