"...and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" So wrote the prophet Micah, more than seven centuries before Christ. Someone once told me something regarding the much misunderstood concept of freedom of choice. In essence what this person told me was that while we're free to choose our daily course of action, we're not free from the consequences of any and all actions we take. We reap what we sow. If we desire the justice, mercy, and love of God, then should we not adopt these attributes in our everyday?
It is interesting that John, the beloved disciple of Christ, echoed words similar to Micah almost eight hundred years after, when he asked the rhetorical question, "But whoso have this world's good, and seeing his brother have need, and shuts up his compassion from his brother, how may the love of God dwell in him?"
As we remember the birth of Christ, let's remember to deal justly with mercy, and know that there is a great God who gives love and life to us common men all. Let us love so that the love of God may dwell in us.
