Micah 6:6-8

6 With what shall I come before the Lord
    and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
    with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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[a] with your God.

As our walk with the Lord grows, we tend to believe that it should be one of sacrifices, or it must be one that keeps us busy in the ministry. But God has taught us what is good, and he requires three things of us: To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.

As followers of Jesus, we may find it difficult to fight on behalf of a marginalize group, especially one that may not share the same viewpoints as us, it may be because of their political views or their social status. But as believers we must stand on the side of justice even when it’s not popular, for as it is written “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for there is the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 5:10).

We must love mercy, because God has shown us mercy, and we must love and show mercy to everyone, for as it is written “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy” (Mat 5:7).

We are to humble ourselves before God, and possibly this may be the hardest of the three, because our ego may not allow us to humble ourselves before our Lord. Only by presenting ourselves before God with a pure heart, we can come before God with humbleness as we worship our Creator, only then we will be able to see God, as it is written “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” (Mat 10:7).

Today there seem to exist a group for every cause, that fights for the social justice of a given group, but these groups tend to do it at the expense of another. The believers must fight for true justice, the one that only God can give, not like the world’s justice, because all through history when a marginalized group obtains power, they in turn marginalize those that abused them. But the Lord Jesus has brought true justice to the world, by which he has given us equality in his kingdom by his sacrifice in the cross. By which as followers of Jesus, when we love justice, practice mercy, we can walk humbly with our God.

Pastor Luis.