God’s Requirements

Requirements are easy to identify in the world of education. Teachers make assignments. Students understand what is required. They are fairly easy to identify in the medical world. Doctors examine you and tell you what is required for you to do or take or undergo. In the athletic world coaches develop a game plan and show you what is required to do in order to win. In the business world, you study the growth charts and determine what is required to turn a profit. What about in the spiritual world? What does God require? That is the very same question that was posed in Micah and then answered in Micah 6:8: “What does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” It is required that we do justly before God, before others and before self. Not only what the law requires, but we are to love mercy, kindness, compassion, benevolence. How are we to carry out these requirements? We respond by walking humbly, under submission, in fellowship with God. Pretty heavy assignment for the week!

Join me this week in remembering the following global prayer concerns:
• Pray for Lew and Brandi as they gain fluency in French and for their possible re-location.
• Pray for missionaries who serve under threats against their lives in some countries.
• Pray for Wade and Laurie as they transition back to the U.S.
• Pray for Pastorless churches in Vancouver, Canada.