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September 23, 2026 | Noah Sidhom teaches from Micah 6:8 focusing on what God requires: to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God. He contrasts Old Testament sacrifices with a heart relationship, illustrating God's balanced call for justice and kindness through Jesus' example.
Worship service on Wednesday nights in the Chapel
Well, thank you so much for being here this evening. If you have your Bible, we'll be in Micah chapter 6, verse 8 this evening. Micah chapter 6, verse 8. We're continuing our series on praying God's word. We're looking at verses that the Lord has put on my heart over different times that I use in order to pray for myself and for other people and for situations. I told somebody the other day, if you want to know what's going on in my life, just come on Wednesday night. It's like a big counseling session for me, because you're learning about what I'm praying about and how I'm praying and how the Lord has led me to pray for certain things. So Micah 6, 8 is one I pray almost every single morning. And I hope it's one that will mean a lot to you as well. Sometimes it's nice in life when you just have a checklist and you know exactly what's expected of you and exactly what you're supposed to do next. Just simple, step-by-step instructions. Just show me what I'm supposed to do next. There are very few things as frustrating as when you know that there's something expected of you, but you don't know how to make it happen. You don't know what you're supposed to do. Or even worse, when you know what's expected of you and you know what you're supposed to do, but they seem like they're in conflict with one another, and you can't do both of the things at the same time. That's exactly what God's people were experiencing in tonight's passage. You see, we read in Micah 6, as we begin in verse 1, where God is bringing an accusation against his people. He is not happy with them. They have not been living the way he has called them to live. And in response, they kind of throw their hands up and say, what do you want from me, God? I don't know what's enough. I'm doing the best that I can. I'm doing what I know how to do, but it never seems to be enough. It's a real, raw situation, a very real situation between the Lord and his people. And we read about it beginning in verse 1 of Micah chapter 6. God sets the stage as if it's a courtroom, and he says these words. Hear what the Lord says. Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel. It's never fun to find yourself in court, but if you do find yourself in court, you better hope that God Almighty is not the prosecutor in that moment, because it is not going to go well for you. He goes on to make the accusation. He says, I brought you out of Egypt. I redeemed you from slavery. I gave you Moses and Aaron as leaders and Miriam as leaders. And when people came against you to curse you, I turned that around for your good, and I blessed you instead, but you are acting as if you are frustrated with me. You're acting like I am your enemy. God says, I've done nothing but take care of you. I've done nothing but provide for you, but you're grumbling against me. You are weary against me, and you are tired of dealing with me. And God's people come to their own defense in Micah chapter six, verse six and seven, when he says, they respond to God, they say, with what shall I come before the Lord? What shall I bow myself? How can I bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with 10,000s of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? In other words, God's people are saying, it doesn't seem like it's ever enough. I keep giving more and more, and I don't know what it is that you expect of me. I'm bowing before you. We give you burnt offerings. We give you the best animals for the sacrifice. Would you be happy if we brought 1,000 rams? What if we brought 10,000s of rivers of oil? Is that enough to please you? Do you want our children? Do you want me to give you my firstborn son? What is it that you will be pleased with? What do you want from us? See, they don't know what's expected of them. And at every level, they assume that if this wasn't right, maybe I just have to give more to the Lord. Maybe he requires more from me and more and more. And as a result, God's people are striving and they are missing the mark. They are missing the rest that God offers. They're missing the most important thing about their walk with the Lord. Now, how often is that true of our lives and in the lives of those around us? You see, God is not standing over us and he is not demanding an ever-increasing load that we cannot bear. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Jesus said these words in Matthew 11, 28 and following. He said, come to me, all who labor, all who labor, who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Learn from me, for I am gentle and I am lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke, it's easy. My burden, it's light. See, that's a far cry from what God's people in the Old Testament thought that God required of them. All of these increasing sacrifices and these demands, and Jesus says, that's not what you need to bring at all. Now, the reality is that God did decree certain sacrifices that would allow God's people to be forgiven of their sins and brought to him, but it was never about the sacrifice. It was about their heart and their relationship. So as God stands in this courtroom with his people, and as they bring their exasperation and they're holding up their hands and saying, what do you want from me? The Lord gives them a very simple answer. He says, I'll tell you what I want from you. He says, he has told you, oh man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? But to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. He's saying these thousands of, tens of thousands of rivers of oil and these thousands of rams, none of that is what the Lord really desires. This is what he desires. You know, there's a story in the Old Testament of the first king of Israel, Saul, who was going into battle and he was very impatient. And he thought that things needed to happen more quickly than the Lord was making them happen. And so he was about to face the enemy and the enemy was growing and the army of Israel was growing impatient and frustrated and Samuel, who was meant to come and offer a sacrifice to the Lord in order to pray for their victory, he was later than Saul thought he should come. So Saul takes the animal and he makes the sacrifice and he's getting ready to lead the people into battle. He's just getting it out of the way. He's checking the box of the sacrifice that God had desired for them to make. And then right then, as he makes the sacrifice, Samuel comes around the corner. He says, what have you done? And Saul says, it's not my fault. The army was coming against me and the opposing army was coming against me. Our army, Israel's army, was growing tired and nervous and you were late. You weren't here when I thought you were going to be here. He points to everybody in the situation except for himself. And Samuel looks at him and gives this reply. Has the Lord great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as he does in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than to sacrifice. And to listen is better than the fat of rams. Samuel's telling Saul, there's no sacrifice that could make up for you not listening to the voice of the Lord and just doing what he tells you to do. And this lesson that Saul had to learn is the same lesson that Israel is having to learn here in Micah chapter six. It doesn't matter all that you do, all that you bring, if your heart is not with the Lord, if you're not walking with the Lord, if you don't have a good relationship with the Lord, then none of the rest matters. It's not a checklist for you to accomplish. It's a relationship. So as we sit here in 2026, what does the Lord require of us? How can we satisfy him today? Because whether we like to admit it or not, sometimes we feel like God is that demanding boss that's standing over us and demanding more and expecting more out of us. And we're trying to live up and measure up to his expectations. But that is a false view of our relationship with him. So often we decide to make our own checklist. Am I going to church? I've got that. I'm even coming on Wednesday nights. I can check that one off. I'm tithing to the church. I'm reading my Bible. I'm praying. I'm serving. I'm doing every single thing I'm supposed to do. And those are all really, really good things. But that is not the checklist that God is looking for you to fulfill today. And here's the thing that makes us uncomfortable is that if we do try to fulfill the checklist, whatever checklist it is that we think is going to help us measure up to God, that's going to help us walk with him, it is a checklist that we are not going to be able to fulfill in our own strength. We're not going to be able to accomplish it. And if we try to push through and try to make it happy and try to please the Lord, we'll end up in a ditch every single time. But this is where Jesus comes in. He says, take my yoke upon you. Walk with me.
Let me carry your burden. You see, everything that the Lord requires of us, we find in Jesus, and it is met in the person of Jesus through the power of Jesus in our lives. When we walk with Jesus, he bears all the fruit in our lives. So tonight as we walk through Micah 6, verse eight, we'll pray it here at the end. And this is a verse I pray most every morning for myself and for several other people. There's some people in my life that just seem to be striving in their relationship with the Lord. They seem to try to make it on their own and in their own strength. And all these people I pray this verse for, I believe love the Lord and know the Lord are born again Christians, but they find themselves in a situation where they're just having to push a little harder than they ought to have to push. And so I pray this verse for themself and for myself every single day. And I hope it's something that you can learn to pray for yourself as well. So here's the question. What does the Lord require? The first thing is right there out of the text is that we do justice, that we do justice. He has told you, oh man, what is good? And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice? Now this one's not complicated. It's simply doing the right thing. What does the Lord expect of us except that we do what we're supposed to do? You see, all throughout scripture, we see over and over again that God is a God of justice. He cannot stand in the presence of injustice. And we look no further than our own salvation to see that this is true of God's character. Why did Jesus have to come and die on our behalf? Because the Bible says in Romans 6.23 that the wages of sin is death. And God could not look at us and look at our sin and just say, you know what? I'm gonna act like this didn't happen. There had to be a penalty, the just penalty for our sin. And so he sent Jesus to pay that sin debt on our behalf. And we see throughout scripture over and over again that there are a lot of big things that God is concerned with when it comes to justice, but he also really seems to care about justice in the seemingly little things as well. It's not just the nations that he expects justice from, it's the individual and it's the least of these as the Bible would call them, those who are most vulnerable within our society, those who are broken and those who are outcast. And over and over again, we see commands that he gives to his people that they are to live in the same way. They are to care about justice, not just for the elite, but to the widow, to the orphan, to the stranger, to those who have no family. The Lord is always concerned for the least of these. You know, we see perfectly this example of what it means to live and to do justice in the life of Jesus. There's so many examples we could look at. I wanna look at John chapter eight. That's the story of the woman who was brought before Jesus, who was caught in the act of adultery. And in this moment, she is brought before Jesus and there is an accusation brought against her. Was she wrong in what she was doing? Absolutely. There's no question that she was wrong. She shouldn't have done that. It was sinful, no question. But God's idea of justice doesn't just involve crushing the guilty. And I'm thankful for that. God's justice is just as focused on caring for the needs of the needy and lifting up those who are crushed. And the reality is it can be pretty messy. And this was a story here in John chapter eight. If you look at it at face value, it's a little bit of a predicament because there's two injustices that Jesus is gonna have to deal with in this moment. We'll look at that here in just a moment. The story goes that early in the morning, Jesus came again to the temple and all the people came to him and he sat down and taught him. And then the scribes and the Pharisees, those are the religious leaders of the day. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and placed her in the midst. They said to him, teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What do you say? See, they're trying to put Jesus in this predicament, in this moment where he can either go against the law of Moses or he can give them permission to stone this woman in front of the entire group. And the reality is that even though their mouths were speaking things that were true, the law of Moses did command that and she was caught in adultery. Though their mouths were speaking the truth, their heart was far from the right place and Jesus sees straight through them. Now, one thing to note here that makes it very obvious that they are not serious, they're disingenuous with their quest for justice is that they didn't bring the man. Last I checked, it takes two to commit adultery, yet they only brought this woman before them. Who knows why, maybe the man was a friend, maybe he was somebody of power, somebody they didn't want to expose, or maybe they just didn't care and maybe they were just looking for anybody that they could grab. If this was truly about justice, they would have been two people standing before Jesus in this moment. But that's not the only problem here. The Bible goes on to say that they did this because they were testing him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. So Jesus bent down and he wrote with his finger on the ground. This woman was simply a pawn in their game. They did not care about her, they didn't care what happened to her. And quite honestly, they did not care about her adultery. They really didn't care. Their only desire was to find a situation in which they could trap and test Jesus to set him up. And like I said, this is a tricky situation. There's really two issues of justice at hand here. One, Jesus needs to deal with her sin. He can't just ignore it, he can't excuse the sin that she has committed. But at the same time, he had to deal with their unjust attack on this woman. And Jesus always handled these situations so masterfully. They continued to ask him and pepper him with questions. And eventually he stood up and he said to them, let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. And once more, he bent down and he wrote on the ground. You know, there was so much chatter and so much talk and accusations being thrown. As soon as he said that, I guarantee you, it went dead quiet in the room. In other words, Jesus says, hey, you know what? You're right, she is guilty. And the punishment for her sin is death. But you know what? You're guilty too. And in this moment, I guarantee you, these thoughts went through all those people's minds, all those religious leaders of all the things that they had done. All of the reasons that they should be standing in the midst exposed before the Lord and all the temple. And one by one, starting with the oldest, they turned away and left. The Bible says in verse nine, but when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones. And Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. I am sure that these religious leaders were so proud of themselves when they thought of this scheme and they thought this is what is going to get Jesus. We've got him this time. But then they find themselves humbled and face to face with their own need for justice in their lives. So Jesus is now one-on-one alone with this woman. Now we're going to see in just a few moments that Jesus deals with her sin. He confronts her about her sin, but he isn't willing to allow those in authority to run over her. And so as God calls us to live like this, to do justice, what does that look like for us? Jesus is our example, our earthly example, and he's the one that performs justice in us. But if God looks at us and says, what do I require of you today? First of all, I want you to do justice. I believe it's a two-part justice. Yes, we need to do what is right and before us, but we need to look out for those who are less fortunate. We need to look out for those who are under the thumb of society or authority or in whatever way. And we need to be, as Christians, the one leading the way and calling out those who are being persecuted, those who are in harm's way, to speak up for those that do not have a voice. When we see an injustice, we are not allowed to ignore it and act like nothing happened. This is the story of the Great Samaritan or the Good Samaritan. When these first two, these religious leaders walk by and they see the man who's in need, but they're busy and they don't want to defile themselves and be unclean for their service, whatever their excuses are, they look the other way and they move on. But it was the Samaritan, the enemy of the Jew, who looked at him and had compassion, picked him up, bandaged him, and paid for his recovery. That's what it looks like to do justice. Is there somebody in your life right now that's being treated unfairly? Do you have the ability?
to intervene. I believe that if you have the ability to intervene on somebody that's being treated unfairly, then you have a right to do it. But you might not be in a position to stop the mistreatment, but you can bandage up the wounds of that person just like that good Samaritan. It's not an option that we have as followers of Jesus Christ. He expects us to do justice. So often we overcomplicate it, but we're simply called to do that which is right. And secondly, he goes on to say, what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness? He says, he has told you, oh man, what is good? And what does the Lord require of you but that you do justice and to love kindness? You know, at face value, these two things, doing justice and loving kindness, can feel at odds with one another sometimes. Sometimes it's when we're confronted with a wrong, we either have to make it right or we feel like we have to ignore it and act like nothing happened in order to show kindness. But we see once again in our salvation, this picture of God's kindness towards us displayed in the heart of God. You see, we are sinners and God's justice requires a payment for our sin. It is God's love and kindness that provides a way for our salvation. We read earlier that the wages of sin is death. That same verse goes on to say, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. You see, God's justice and kindness are never in contradiction with one another. He never neglects one in favor of the other. He holds them both in perfect balance. And while our sin required payment, God's heart desired redemption. And so he gave us both at the same time. Payment for sin and a path for our salvation. John 3, 16, and 17 says it this way, There's no greater picture in all the Bible of kindness in the heart of our God. You know, last year as a church, we studied through the chronological Bible and we walked through it and I really enjoyed it. I don't read the Bible chronologically every year, but every once in a while, I find it really refreshing and helpful in order to gain a picture, especially in the Old Testament, an understanding of how all the puzzle pieces fit together. And we see that God really is telling one big story from beginning to end. And we see that God has always been faithful to his people. He has always loved his people and he has always taken care of his people. And it was the Lord's love and his kindness for his people that enabled them to even know and follow him in the first place. God rescued them out of slavery, he rescued them out of bondage, and he set them in their land that he promised them. It wasn't because they were the biggest, strongest nation or the most impressive, but because of his love for them. It's the same for us here today. The Bible says in 1 John 4, 19, that we love because he first loved us. See, there's nothing desirable, particularly desirable, about any one of us. You might think that you're special and that God needed to have you on his team, but the reality is that God did not look at any of us and have to have us because of what we brought to the table. God looked at us and loved us so much that he had to send his Son to save us because of his love for us and his kindness toward us. It's God's love and his kindness for us that precedes ours for him and for other people. And it's God's love and his kindness that enables our love and our kindness. Back to this woman that was caught in adultery. You can only imagine the shame and the embarrassment that this woman was feeling, the humiliation. Yes, she did something that was wrong. Yes, she shouldn't have done it. But you can only imagine what this woman was feeling in this moment, the complete shame and humiliation. The whole room is staring at her. Everybody knows what she's done. And in this moment, her life was seemingly over. Even if she were to live, the humiliation was too much for her to bear. But they were standing around her ready to throw the stones at her, and they could come at any moment. And now she's standing face to face with Jesus himself, having to look him in the eye and acknowledge her sin. But instead of casting judgment on her, Jesus took the spotlight and he shifted it away from her and to her accusers. Yeah, I don't think we could ever really comprehend the shock and the relief that must have washed over this woman in this moment. These accusers were there holding their heads high, were now lowering their heads and walking away. And then Jesus looked her in the eye, and with all the compassion in the world and his perfect kindness, he said these words. Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? She said, no one, Lord. And Jesus said, neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on, sin no more. See, notice that Jesus didn't just tell her, it doesn't matter, you're good, you got away with it. He confronts her sin, he deals with it, but he offers her forgiveness. And he's the only one uniquely qualified to be able to do that. He offers her forgiveness in this moment. She is free to go. There was no debt for her to pay, but there was an expectation that she would no longer live in the sin. You see, this is how the justice of Jesus, but also the love for kindness, are perfectly held in unity together. And that's exactly what Jesus has done for every single one of us who are followers of him. He picks us up, he dusts us up off the ground, and he says to us, neither do I condemn you. You are free to go, but from now on, do not sin any longer. What about us? What does this look like for us in our lives? As we reflect on God's expectation for us to love kindness, what does it look like for us to follow Christ's example? Is that a...kindness, is that a clear characteristic in your life? You know, it's one of the fruit of the Spirit. When we abide in Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to do his work in our lives, kindness will naturally come out. But so often, the people closest to us don't experience kindness, they experience bitterness and resentment in a sharp tongue. Yes, we're meant to do justice, we're meant to do what is right, but we cannot leave kindness behind as we do it. The example of Jesus shows them both being held together. They're not opposing ends of the spectrum, they are not enemies with one another. Judgment and kindness ought to be friends. And when somebody hurts us, when somebody does us wrong, as followers of Christ, we should be the first to want to reconcile and the first to want to forgive. The Bible says in 1 Peter that love covers over a multitude of sins. But if we're honest, that's a hard thing for us to do sometimes. Sometimes when somebody does us wrong, it is so difficult for us to truly release them and hand them over to the Lord because we're afraid that he might forgive them just like he forgave us. And that's a hard thing for us to admit sometimes, but the reality is that I don't often want God to forgive my enemies. There are lots of Psalms where David is praying for the destruction of his enemies. That's what I want God to do to my enemies, not to forgive them. But if I want to be forgiven, Jesus said, in the same way that I forgive, I will be forgiven. And when we are hurt, when a wrong is done against us, absolutely we need to do justice and do that which is right. But at the same time, we need to seek kindness and love kindness and learn what it means to reconcile and for love to cover over the sin. We should not want to hold things against people. We shouldn't want somebody to suffer who has done us wrong. We should pray for their health and for their prosperity as hard as that is. And that's a difficult thing for us to do, especially when we're trying to do justice. Doing justice is a little easier for us sometimes than loving kindness. And it's hard for us to do them together, but that's why I believe this third one is listed here, to walk humbly with God. He says, 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 to walk humbly with your God? See, there is a tension that we must walk between justice and kindness. And though we see that Jesus is able to perfectly hold them in balance, you and I cannot perfectly hold them in balance on our own. And there is going to come a time when we are going to trip and we're going to stumble and we are going to neglect one of them for the other. I believe this is where the third one comes into play. What do we do?
when we don't have the answers? What do we do when we find ourselves messing it up once again? We walk humbly with our God. Let's go back to the question posed to God at the beginning of our passage tonight. God's people are asking Him, what do you want from us? We're trying our best to do everything we can think of. We're trying to give you more and more and more. Is that enough? Is it ever enough? What do you want us to do? And in His reply, God turns it away from that question and brings it back to the relationship. I've told you, you know what's good. It's to do justice, to love kindness, and to simply walk in a humble way with me. You see, we have a tendency to pull everything toward religion and towards our performance. But the Lord pulls it back to the humility of recognizing that we don't have everything figured out. And He calls us to a humble walk with Him. With this woman that was caught in adultery, Jesus called all the accusers into a humbling realization. He said in John 8, 7, as they continued to ask Him, He stood up and said, let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. And who walked away first? The older people? Starting with the older all the way to the younger because those younger people might have had some pride left in them and thinking that they were all that important and all that special. But those who had lived a little longer knew the truth of their own lives. They knew where they had messed up. They knew that they weren't enough. And one by one, I believe they dropped those stones that they had been preparing. And they turned and walked away in humility. You see, Jesus modeled humility for us perfectly when He was on the earth. Over and over again, Jesus submitted to the will of the Father, not His own will. We saw that with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane when He cried out, Lord, not my will, but Yours be done. It's a perfect picture of walking humbly with God because He wasn't just blindly submitting. He was letting God know of His desires and that which concerned Him for the future. He was saying, Lord, if it's possible, do not let this cup pour on me. Let it pass from me, but not my will, but Yours. See, walking humbly with God is not just saying, yes, sir, and not questioning anything and not having a relationship and not having a conversation. Walking humbly with God involves us being honest with the Lord, but still submitting to Him anyway. The Bible says in Philippians 2, 3 and following that Jesus really is our example. When it comes to walking humbly with the Lord, it says, do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility, and this is a great definition of humility, count others more significant than yourself. Let each of you look not only to his own interest, but also to the interest of others. Have this mind, think like this among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus. This is what he did, who though he was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, something that he had to hold onto, but he emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. When Jesus was preparing for his death, he was praying to the father just moments before his arrest and he prayed these words to the father. He says, I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. You see, that's exactly how Jesus lived. And that's how you and I are called to live as well. We're meant to walk humbly with God because unlike Jesus, we can't figure it all out and we're not going to get it all right. Yes, we're gonna try to do justice, but we're gonna fail at times. We're gonna do things ourselves that involve injustice. Bible's gonna say that we're required of us, expected of us to love kindness. But I can guarantee you in the last week, you can think of an unkind word that you might've said or an action you might've done to somebody else. And though we know what we're supposed to do, we find ourselves walking and doing exactly like Paul said, I don't do the things I want to do. I do the things I don't want to do. I don't even understand my own heart. But in the midst of all that, we're called to walk humbly with our God. And some of that means we go back to the Lord and said, I messed up, I need help again. I need you to show me the way to go. Are you walking humbly with God? It's pretty easy to tell, may not be easy for me to tell in your life. Sometimes it is, but I can guarantee you it's very easy for you to tell in your own life. Are you trusting in him more than you trust in yourself? Are you putting your priorities ahead of his? Are you bringing your faults to him? Are you confessing those before him and confessing your need for help and confessing your need for his direction? Does he hear your voice? Do you hear his? See, when we walk humbly with the Lord, I believe he will speak to us, he will lead us, he will guide us, he'll forgive us, and he'll put us back on the path every time we fall into the ditch. So like I said, this is a verse I like to pray most every morning for several different people in my life. Some people who I believe injustice was done to, some people about whom I believe have done an injustice, some people who just seem to lack kindness in their life, and more than anything, some people who I'm wanting just to let go of the pressures of the weight of this world and to have that relationship with the Lord that's easy and light. So I pray every morning, and there's probably seven or eight names that I cry out to the Lord, and I say, he has told you, I'm not gonna say the names because you might know who they are. I'll say, he's told you, Noah. He has told you, Sam. He has told you, name, name, name, what is good and what the Lord requires of you. And what is that but that you do justice, that you love kindness and you walk humbly with your God. And I pray that they would live, and myself as well, that we would live, not trying to stack up and try to please the Lord, not trying to bring enough in order to make him happy, but that we would simply walk with him, that we would rest in him. And that as we walk with him, he would help us just to do what's right, to love kindness and to be kind people, and just to walk humbly with God. I guarantee you, like Jesus said in the verse in Matthew 11, if we do that, we'll realize that his burden is easy, it's light, it's not something that's gonna weigh us down. When we walk with Jesus and we give him our burden and we take on his, we are never crushed at the end of the day. And that's what it looks like when we walk humbly before the Lord. We take off the expectations that we have of ourselves, the expectations that we feel like the world has on us, and we take on the Lord's expectations for us. It's easy and it's light.