Lists are everywhere. The sports page is full of them: lists of current teams and their standings, lists of former championships and their scores, lists of Hall of Famers, highest and lowest records, even lists of salaries.
Elsewhere we find lists of Academy Award winners, best-sellers, Fortune 500 companies, stock market listings, and let’s not forget our to-do lists and those honey-do lists. If we are not careful, it is easy to get lost in all of our lists as we struggle to make it to the top and please others.
I am thankful that God’s list for us is short. The Bible says in Micah 6:8, “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
The next time that you’re feeling that living for God is getting too complicated, blow the dust off Micah’s list: to do justice, to love kindness, to walk humbly with God.
