He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8

Justice, kindness, humility. Now, if you just take these attributes, it looks like a pretty modern, progressive posture for loving.

Add some qualifiers like “social” and “inclusion” and it could be a headline rather than a Bible verse.

We are wired to be seeking after these things—to be striving to live in a way that would honor others and God by how we approach life.

Sometimes, it should be as simple as asking what’s the right thing? How can I be kind? How can I get out of the way so that God can work?

I want to be obedient to his will and used by him, but without complicating the matter.

As we recover from our self-obsessed way of life, our only hope is to fill that void with a purpose greater than us. To jump back into the slip-stream of God-consciousness. To launch on a course of action that can lift us out of our petty desires and give us purpose that supersedes what we thought we were after.

God, pause my desires that I may be drawn to yours.