{"id":2085,"date":"2010-02-24T18:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:16:48","slug":"explaining-walk-humbly-micah-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/explaining-walk-humbly-micah-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining 'Walk Humbly' (Micah 6:8)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a bit of a excerpt from a paper I’m finishing right now. I would love your comments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

-lisa<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rich Language of \u201cwalk humbly\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In verse eight, it is fascinating how God uses the term (we read in English) \u201cwalk right\u201d or \u201cwalk humbly.\u201d In this apex verse, God asks his people to act as he does, and \u201clive carefully\u201d (Barker, 114). To walk with God<\/em> implies constant prayer and watchfulness, and possession of a familiar yet \u201chumble\u201d communion with God. It includes both passive and active obedience towards God, their Sovereign (Fausset). While actions show the condition of the heart, worship is the outward expression of humility. One must love God and neighbor thoroughly in word and deed. For God, this renders sacrifices as secondary, or even unnecessary (Smith, 51). This Just<\/em> God takes his people into kind consideration through protective laws, and in honoring them (among many other Just things). In that fashion, he expects that Israel\u2019s \u201cliving carefully\u201d includes Social Justice and true religion (113). Like the command of Deuteronomy 10:12-13, the people should act<\/span> out of justice, not just talk about<\/em> justice (115). Through the method of God\u2019s prophetic message, God reveals the history<\/em> of his Just and Merciful actions toward Israel. God asks of them that which stem from Justice\u2013the attribute\u2013that applies directly to God himself.<\/p>\n

Bibliography:<\/p>\n

Barker, Kenneth L. and Waylon Bailey. Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah<\/em>. The\u00a0American Commentary. Nashville: Broadman, 1999.<\/p>\n

Fausset, A.R. Robert Jamieson, and David Brown. The Book of Micah:
\nCommentary: Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, <\/em>1871.\u00a0Public domain. http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/jamieson\/jfb.i.html. Accessed 2\/20\/10.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Smith, Ralph L. Micah-Malachi<\/em>. Word Biblical Commentary 32. Waco: Word, 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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