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“Walking Humbly With God”
God says in Micah 6:8 that Yahweh requires us “to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God.” These three requirements are my philosophy for ministry and for life. The third requirement, walking humbly with God, is best expressed, for me, in the words of Rev. Allan Boesak.
“Walking humbly with God is walking with Jesus, restoring life to the bodies of children and thereby restoring life to the hearts of their parents. Walking humbly with God is walking with Jesus and making the wounded whole, healing the sick, liberating those in prison, touching the untouchables and overturning the thrones of the ‘Untouchables!’
“Walking with God means giving women their rightful place, weeping with those who mourn, releasing the life-giving power of the law, challenging and confronting the powerful on the basis of justice and mercy… confronting them in their temples and in their palaces and giving them notice that the Kingdom of God has come.
“Walking with God is to stand where God stands, and to fight for whom God fights: the poor, the weak, the powerless and the defenseless. Walking with God is to have the courage to know that fear and trepidation before the might of the powerful is overturned by the fear of the Lord! Walking with God is to understand, without doubt or equivocation that justice is what Yahweh requires.
“Justice is not what God seeks or asks. Justice is not what God requests or hopes to eventually coax from our humbling hearts. Justice is what Yahweh requires!”
– Paraphrased from Boaesak’s The Tenderness of Conscience