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Myka chapter 6 verse 8.

He has told you, O man, 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.

This is probably the most well-known verse in the book of Micah and really in a lot of the

prophets in the Old Testament because of its simplicity and clarity regarding what God requires of his people.

Now specifically this was spoken by God through the Prophet Micah to the people of Israel in the Old

Testament in the context of the system of government that God had set up among his people, particularly with a king

through which he would administer justice, at least that was the design.

The problem is God's people had over and over and over again settled for injustice in their laws and the execution of those laws, in ways that led to oppression of the poor

and the weak, and all sorts of idolatry and immorality that had crept into God's people.

So God says through Micah, this is what I require of you as my people that you do justice and you love kindness and you walk humbly with me. Now obviously we want to be careful when we read the Old Testament

just to make direct application of commands that we see in the Old Testament

particularly if we don't see those commands in the New Testament.

But do we see in Jesus commands to his people and the picture of the church in the New Testament, a desire from God for us as his people to do justice

and to love kindness and to walk humbly with him.

Surely we do.

And so Micah chapter 6 verse 8 leads us to pray for this in our lives

and really in a sense to pray for this in our country.

Obviously this verse was not spoken to the United States,

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