Micah 6:8 English Standard Version (ESV) 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?

A recent study implied that one of our fears is not being good enough. As an offshoot of that emotion is a desire to try and do enough to earn His approval. That may stem from our relationship with our father or mother. It is error to place those earthly emotions on our eternal God.

Once we let Jesus into our hearts we gained all the approval we will ever get. It is enough to be in Christ and because we are in Christ then this happens, God tells us what is good.

Requirements are not laws to keep. It is the act of son ship, to be His child. Love what God loves. God is telling us what He loves. Obedience of faith comes from hearing God. It cannot be any other way. We allow guilt related to past relationship determine our motive for action. That is not what God wants. We are His child now and we need to untangle ourselves from the guilt of the past.

The most important part of Micah 6:8 is walking with God.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 English Standard Version (ESV) What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Acts 17:21 English Standard Version (ESV) Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

The New World existed long before explorers sailed across the Atlantic and discovered it. It was new to them only by discovery.

Yesterday it was stated that the bible is complete and there is nothing new to be found in what God has to say to us. His Word is complete. That does not mean you have discovered all that He has to say to you. While the men of the Areopagus were epicurean and stoic philosophers they were willing to discover new things.

The new things we discover must be validated by the Word of God if they are spiritual in nature. Anything related to how God speaks to man and His plans for us is discoverable in our bibles. If what we believe is not validated by God’s Word we must seek wise counsel in order to come to a better understanding of the truth.

2 Corinthians 10:5 English Standard Version (ESV) We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Lofty opinions which cannot be validated by the Word are vain imaginations and there is no truth in them.

Psalm 119:104 English Standard Version (ESV) Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Ephesians 4:18 English Standard Version (ESV) They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Pride causes a hardening of the heart. We must not think ourselves better than others just because they have not discovered all the truth.