A Wheel with Spokes
Micah 6:7–8
"Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Moses gave his people 630 laws, David reduced them to 15, Isaiah reduced them to 11 and here, Micah reduced them to three — do justice, love mercy and walk humbly before your God (v.8). When Jesus was asked what is the greatest commandment, He said "to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul and to love your neighbor as yourself, on these two commandments hang all of the laws of all the prophets. (Luke 10:27, Matt 22:37, Mark 12:30-31)." Ravi Zacharias says of this, that because of the former, the latter "naturally follows", Roy Hess also says the same in his booklet "The Calvary Road", he illustrates this like a wheel with spokes, as we get close to the centre, we get closer to each other. St James in the New Testament echos the prophet Micah on how we ought to view our religion, it is by the way we practice it that pleases God, and these acts take root from God's grace —our salvation: "True religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world (Jam 1:27)."
"Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Moses gave his people 630 laws, David reduced them to 15, Isaiah reduced them to 11 and here, Micah reduced them to three — do justice, love mercy and walk humbly before your God (v.8). When Jesus was asked what is the greatest commandment, He said "to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul and to love your neighbor as yourself, on these two commandments hang all of the laws of all the prophets. (Luke 10:27, Matt 22:37, Mark 12:30-31)." Ravi Zacharias says of this, that because of the former, the latter "naturally follows", Roy Hess also says the same in his booklet "The Calvary Road", he illustrates this like a wheel with spokes, as we get close to the centre, we get closer to each other. St James in the New Testament echos the prophet Micah on how we ought to view our religion, it is by the way we practice it that pleases God, and these acts take root from God's grace —our salvation: "True religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world (Jam 1:27)."
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