Micah 6:8 He has showed you, oh man, 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.

Justice, mercy, and humility are a part of God’s attributes, which we have access by surrendering our heart and mind to the character of God. Accepting these attributes is accessible through the Holy Spirit, our helper here on earth. We need God’s Spirit to reveal God in our hearts because we suffer from carnality. Carnality is an umbrella term defining our ability to sin, to know evil, and be at enmity with God’s character.

I might not feel like acting merciful and forgiving. I might not feel like being humble. I might want to fight and be merciless. I might not forgive, but I have the choice to act differently, feel differently, believe differently about myself, God, people, and situations. I can change my heart when I accept God’s love and forgiveness. This opens up potential to love and pursue justice, mercy, and humility.

God made a way for humanity to understand love and peace with our families and friends. We all have the ability to be just, merciful, and humble, even during conflict. We can set our hearts on these qualities, even if we do not fulfill their destination. We all have choices on how to treat others, choices that go on endlessly through every day. Wanting our own way is convoluted by hurt, misjudgments, and error.

God redeems, perfects, and resurrects our heart and mind to reflect God’s love. This is His glory. It is the same as parents and children. There is a scripture that says be transformed by the renewing of you mind. This means that the more we allow our minds to understand the ways of God, the more we see ourselves and others within a concurrent conversation with God, being self aware and learning a new way of being, with God, living with God.

Loving justice, showing mercy, living humbly comes from a heart full of love, a heart that has been loved by God, and is loved enough to love others. This does not exist when we are so broken, that we know not love, but only how to love in part. Jesus, who is the Word, the Word became flesh, which is Jesus, and all the teaching of God came through him here on earth. The Word says all the laws and prophets hang on one command, “To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love others as yourself.”

Christianity is not about about obeying “ten commandments.” It’s about relationship, fellowship, and living a life in the working knowledge of God, in the Holy Spirit. The more we allow God to love us, the more we reconcile our differences with others. The more we allow the Spirit of God to lead us into understanding of God, the more we are able to be just, merciful, and humble.