The famous line from Micah really says it all: “Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.”
What kind of an “inner life” is this? It is a life in which “true life” is flowing through the veins — and the muscles, and the heart, and the brain, and the hair, and the cuticles — everywhere. Everything and through everything, goodness and love abound.
And it can only happen if one is one truly humble before their God.
Walk with God, sit with God, sing with God, eat with God, talk with God, love with God. And this, when truly done, is loving, and living in and with the God of the universe.
It is finding God everywhere. It is respecting and loving God everywhere and in everything.
Or to put it in the words of today’s Psalm: “To the upright I will show the saving power of God.”
+ In contrast, there is always the opposite: “Show me a sign.” “Prove it to me.” “I want to see it, touch it, have it, understand it, possess it.”
The boldness of one who has to have it, and has to have it “their way” lacks the fundamental “humble walk with God” where all gets revealed — where all gets experienced.
Jonah, Nineveh, Solomon — they all received signs and wonders, and they all “got it”!
We marvel and rejoice in them and their experience and response But, as Jesus says, “There is something greater here.”
Of course, to “get it”, no doubt, we must learn the “humble walk with God.” And the proof that we “got it” is that we will surely learn “to do the right and to love goodness.”
Father Perry D. Leiker is the 14th pastor of St. Bernard Catholic Church. Reach him at (323) 255-6142. Email Father Perry at perry.leiker@gmail.com. Follow Father Perry on Twitter: @MrDeano76.
