What Response Does God Require?

With what shall I come to the Lord and bow myself before the God on hight?.....He has told you.  O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and do to walk humble with your God?  Micah 6:6,8

They drag themselves across the uneven pavement until their knews are bloodied and their exhausted bodies finally fall againist the splintered wooden doors to the church.  In this way, many in Mexico seek to do their yearly public penance for sin.

Christ has already paid the price that needed to be exacted for our sins.  He took the whips, the lashes, the nailing to the cross, the verbal rebukes, and also the physical agony on our behalf.  The God of this universe looked upon our futility and became a man, and then He sacrified His life so that we who did not and could not ever deserve His mercy might obtain it.  Jesus Christ did all this because He is both just and kind.

Isaiah prophesied the promise of Christ's cross.  "Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried....But He was pierced through our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed"  (Isaiah 53:4-5)

Though I expend every effort, I can never rid myself of sin.  You've already provided the only way in which I can be cleansed.

(Women's Daily Devo by Guidepost)