(Micah 6:6 KJV) Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?(Micah 6:7 KJV) Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?(Micah 6:8 KJV) He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
How shall we come to worship God? What do we bring that will please Him? Our text tells us what God is looking for, what pleases Him. First of all, it isn’t just about being religious, not just going through the form, the rituals. It isn’t about doing some great sacrifice, not about self inflicted suffering, pain. What the Lord requires, what it takes to make heaven our home is still pretty simple: Our text summarizes it this way: do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God. First of all, we are instructed to do justly, do what is right. This is the standard we are to apply to ourselves, this is how we are to judge our own life. We need to cultivate a sincere desire to know what is right and to live that way. We need to give serious attention to doing what is right in every situation, with every one, all the time. We cannot allow those things that are wrong to continue in our life and expect to be pleasing to God.