Do Justly Chalkboard Printable

Have you ever been in a situations where you didn’t know what you were supposed to do or which side to agree with?

I have and this verse has been particularly helpful.

When you don’t know what to do, which position to take, which voice is right, this verse is a lifesaver.  In Micah 6:6-8 the question arises about Israel’s sin and how to appear for worship again before the Lord.

What do you do when you don’t know what to do?

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?

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?

The Lord doesn’t make us jump through hoops, and again we see that a pure heart and a relationship with Him that transforms us into the image of His Son is what He desires for us. It looks God-centered, humble, merciful and just in the everyday dealings of life.

“He hath shewed 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?”

God wants us to get rid of pride and to be God-loving and God-dependent people. Pride produces the opposite in us. It makes us arrogant, stiff-necked, self-reliant and stubborn. Dependence on God is the antithesis of pride.

Spurgeon says this:

When our walk with God is closest and clearest, we must be overwhelmed with adoring wonder at the condescension which permits us to think of speaking with the Eternal One.

To this reverence must be added a constant sense of dependence—walking humbly with God in the sense of daily drawing all supplies from Him and gratefully admitting that it is so. We are never to indulge a thought of independence from God, as if we were anything, or could do anything apart from Him.

Walking humbly with God involves a profound deference to His will and a glad submission to it—yielding both active obedience and passive acquiescence.

Humble walking with God cries under cutting afflictions, “It is the Lord! Let Him do what seems good to Him…
The practical result of all this inward humbling will be an acting towards others and a moving in all matters as under the influence of a humble spirit…

Like his Lord, he will be meek and lowly in heart. He will not domineer over his fellow men. He will not be hard, cruel, unkind. He cannot be! He who feels that he must walk with great softness and tenderness before his God cannot trample on others as if they were only fit to be the dust of his feet.

You will not see him supremely disdainful, carrying his head among the stars as though he were some great one. No, he has learned to walk humbly with God and he thinks of himself soberly, as he ought to think.

I made this printable for our fridge as a reminder. Feel free to use it yourself.

When you’re tempted to walk in self-sufficiency, stubbornness, elitism, prejudice, arrogance, remember our Lord and His desire that we walk humbly as He did.