Walk Humbly With God

Stop.

Go for a short walk – even just for five minutes around your house. Pay attention to the movement of your body. Be attentive to the goodness of God made known in the gift of your body.

Listen.

[God] has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? – Micah 6:8

Reflect.

This week, we will focus on this one verse from Micah in each devotion. We’ll look at one piece of God’s instructions each day. Today, we’ll look at God’s command to walk humbly with our Creator. 

Psalm 25 is a psalm of teaching, focusing on how we learn from God. Verses 8-9 say, “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.” It seems worth noting that God will teach both sinners and the humble, those who disobey God and those whose obedience to God keeps them close to God’s will. 

Too often, we’re proud about humility. We lift up humility as if by not taking pride in who God made us to be we’re somehow better than others. That’s a little hypocritical, right? So it can get difficult to consider what it might mean to walk humbly with our God. If we really are humble, do we even think we get to walk with God? 

But that’s the point in Psalm 25. God walks with sinners – that’s you and me, friends – so that we can learn what God needs of us. We can find our place next to our Creator. We can understand who we are and who we aren’t to God’s glory. Humility doesn’t mean denying ourselves. It means knowing where we stand in relationship to God and others. We’re not the center of the universe, God is – and to remember that, we need to walk close and quiet with the One who made us.

Pray.

Keep me close to your side, God. Lead me in love. Send me out in compassion. Amen.

Carry On.

What is one habit you can add to your week that will keep you walking closely with God?