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What is it that God wants from me?
These messages are to the least and the lost.
They are for those who wonder if they have strayed too far, done too much damage.
They are those who feel disconnected from God; to those who feel their life is not working, that something is missing.
Those who don’t know the way back.
How to re-establish the broken relationship with God.
It is a map, a new orientation, a way to live that is pleasing to God, a way of life that brings God’s blessing and reflects God’s peace.
For God, from God:
As I mentioned week before last, this way of being which has love for God at its core motivation.
BUT it also has to do with the Love that God has for you, for his people.
This is how God is.
It is the sort of Love that God has, which is THE heart of the covenant between the Lord and Israel; it reflects his faithful love.
responses ranged from burnt offerings to a beloved child.
Who, Not What (6:6–8)
Surprise: it is no thing at all!
What God really wants is you!
it is who, not what (Micah 6)
This is a matter of the heart.
The collective whole of one’s life.
The whole orientation of one’s life.
This is what your life should look life.
“come with things, but give yourself.
The answer begins by saying there will be no surprises!
“He has showed you … what is good
There will be no surprises, he has shown us, plainly.
The whole tradition of the commandments and also wisdom directives, long known in Israel.
Doing, loving, walking
These are each things that one does.
Moral demands
oh Adam
Israel did not act in righteousness, nor did they love mercy, nor did they walk humbly in fellowship with the Lord.
Israel did not act in righteousness, nor did they love mercy, nor did they walk humbly in fellowship with the Lord.
Amos’s comparison of justice to a flowing, churning stream (Amos 5:24)
The powerful oppress the powerless (2:1–2, 8–9; 3:1–3, 9–10), laborers are exploited (3:10), courts are corrupt (3:11).
To do justice means to work for the establishment of equity for all, especially for the powerless.
Second, “to love kindness.”
Here is the thematic word for Hosea, hesed.
This word is especially rich in meaning, as the variety of its translations indicates.
When used of human relationships, it means love with a strong element of loyalty, such as that between a husband and wife (Hos.
2:19 “steadfast love”) or between two friends (1 Sam.
20:14, “loyal love”).
When used of the human relationship to God, it again means love-loyalty (Hos.
6:4, “love” and 6:6, “steadfast love”; see the commentary on these texts).
“to walk humbly with your God.”
This expression stresses the theological dimension of the sort of life God wants
The word translated “humbly” has more the sense of “circumspectly, carefully,” than humility
In Judaism the word for ethics is halacha which means “walking”; the idea is that the task of ethics is to describe how one ought to walk one’s day-by-day life.
Jesus: walk, follow me
One who so walks with God will not be exempt from the dark places of life.
That person does have the assurance though that this walk is not taken alone: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me …” (Ps.
23:4).
“How should I respond?
What does God want from me?”
That is the question.
The answer given here describes a step-by-step living with God and living for others, acting as advocate for the powerless and showing care for those who are hurting and who need help.
“is good and most kind.”
He is “merciful, compassionate and rich in mercy,”22 which “he prefers to every sacrifice
He is “the Savior of all people, and especially of the faithful.”25
Therefore the children of God must also be “merciful”26 and “peacemakers,”27 “forgiving each other as Christ also forgave us,”28 “not judging, lest we be judged.”29
“Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”31
Yet many such things as these are only said, not done, merely bandied about, unmanning rather than strengthening discipline, flattering God and pandering to themselves
Why not?
Because they were uncircumcised in their hearts
khesed [TH2617, ZH2876] (mercy) describes the loyal love
A way of life that is humble
God lives with those whose spirits are “contrite and humble” (Isa 57:15)
Jesus taught that the humble will inherit the earth (Matt 5:5; on humility
Hosea—Micah 3. Doing, Loving, Walking
thematic word from the prophet Amos and emphasizes the social dimension: “to do justice
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