Micah 6:8 He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy… I. A GREAT DEAL IS REQUIRED OF MAN WHEN HE IS TOLD TO "WALK HUMBLY WITH GOD." 1. He who walks with God must be considered as living in the full consciousness that the eye of his Maker is ever upon him; that he cannot take a single unobserved step, nor do the least thing which escapes Divine notice. When you consider walking with God as implying an ever active consciousness of God's presence, it would not perhaps be easy to find words which should better express a preeminent holiness. If a man has a practical conviction that God is ever at his side, such a man will be the same in public and in private. 2. Walking with God denotes a complete fixing of the affections "on things that are above." He has both his head and his heart in heaven. High attainments in piety have been reached by the man to whom such a description applies. II. WHY, THOUGH A GREAT DEAL BE REQUIRED, IT MIGHT BE SPOKEN OF IN THAT ALMOST SLIGHTING MANNER WHICH IS SO OBSERVABLE IN THE TEXT. The form of expression seems to indicate that God might have required much more than He has required. God asks nothing which it is not for man's present as well as future advantage to yield. He hath so ordered His dealings with our race, that obedience is the parent of peace, and disobedience of disquietude. The creature is advantaged by giving what the Creator demands. God might have instituted so different a mode of dealing with man, that what He now asks is as nothing compared with what He might have demanded. (Henry Melvill, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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? |
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