Realigion

UV 4259/10000 Realigion He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of your except to be just, and to love (and to diligently practice) kindness (compassion), and to walk humbly with your God (setting aside any overblown sense of importance or self-righteousness)? Micah 6 v 8 This uni-verse sums up the essence of what I call REALIGION, not religion. God wants the crown of His creation, man and woman to do what is good, what is positive, what is beneficial, what is healthy, what is praiseworthy, what is worthy of emulation and appreciation. He has only three real requirements- we should be just or fair, impartial, true and we should love mercy, kindness, compassion for we ourselves are recipients in abundance of love, mercy, kindness, compassion from the Lord. Finally, He wants us to be humble. If we are humble, we will neither stumble, bumble or ramble. Our pride will not make us look foolish or make us take foolish decisions, ignoring the sane and sage advice of those who know better. Humility comes from the realization that each of us, even at our strongest, best, greatest times, is like a speck of dust before the Lord. Humility comes from the fact that better and greater persons than us have all bitten the dust. “ Dust we are and unto dust we shall return.” Without knowledge, acknowledgement, relationship with God, we have no personality in this lifetime, let alone eternity. We are not people on the dunghill of history but just dust. It is God who takes us from being dust to being the image of God, His reflection, His wonderful children. It is this kind of humility that produces fear or reverence for the sheer power, wisdom, grace, love, mercy of God towards us. That sense of reverence kickstarts us on the journey of pursuing wisdom, of being balanced and wise in our judgements, decisions, reactions and attitudes. Each of us is the sum of our attitudes- our heart attitudes, our mental attitudes, our emotions. We need to be mindful of our attitudes towards God and towards all of life. Once we are so mindful, the rest will fall in place. When we truly and really think we are the image of God, the enemy cannot seduce, tempt us into doing things that are contrary to that image. When we think that all people are created in the image of God, we will not consider ourselves better or more important than any other. We will also love to show mercy as the uni-verse says, to even those who have temporarily departed from being that image. We will neither be adulatory of ourselves or condemn others. We will think neither highly nor lowly of ourselves or others. We will instead focus our energy and attention to removing from our character those flaws, those aspects of our nature or character that detracts from the image of God. Walking humbly with God implies that with each thought we think, each emotion we feel, each decision we take, each word we speak, each action we do, we give Him the glory and the honour. Walking humbly also means we lean on Him and take His help for each step we take, every moment and day of our lives.