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I have a dear aunt that went home to be with the Lord last week. As I travel from her homegoing (funeral) service, I am meditating on her favorite passage of scripture: Micah 6:6-8, “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? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” This scripture has inspired me to write this month’s Word of Life on the theme, God’s standard. In Micah, the prophet asks this question: What does the Lord require of thee? If I were to ask each of you that question, you would probably come up with a few different answers, but the prophet answered by saying that God is not interested in our sacrificial offering as much as he is interested in the intentions of our heart:To do justly, to be kind and loving to one another, to walk humbly with God. That’s God’s standard. We need to all get back to the basics of what Christianity means: it means to be like Christ, which is to live life submitted to God, where we walk in love toward one another.
Our world is so busy that we often forget the basics of our Christian walk, we need to be kind to one another; to do the right thing because it is right, whether it is popular or not; to yield ourselves to God by living our life by God’s laws regardless of what people may say. As Christians, we are supposed to be different than the world. The world should look at us and see a tangible difference in our lives. Our marriages should be the best, our children should be the most successful, our businesses should be flourishing. Our lives should be a calling card for the world stating that our God is great and He is manifesting Himself through the lives of His children. But when our lives mirror the world, when our divorce rate is as high as the world; when we do not walk in integrity in our businesses or our personal lives; we find we have the same prognosis as the world; then, we have nothing to offer the world. Why should someone want my Jesus, when they do not see Jesus working in my life? We must always remember that the only Jesus some people will see is “us”. I encourage each and every one of us to take a hard look at our lives to see where we have compromised on God’s standard: are we doing the right thing for the right reason? Are we walking in love with our brother, neighbor, co-worker regardless of how we are treated? Are we letting God’s standard be our standard? Let’s get back to basics. Let’s let our light shine so we will draw all men to God and so people may glorify our Heavenly Father. Let’s get back to God’s standard!
