What does it mean to 'walk humbly with your God'?

The verse asks what God requires of man. The word for require means 'seek with care'. So you could say this...'what does God carefully look for in man'? One of the three things mentioned is that we would 'walk humbly with God'. As I've looked at this phrase, a sharper meaning has come into focus. The famous phrase 'walk humbly with your God' simply means (in the Hebrew) to 'allow yourself to be advised' by God. Or put another way, 'pay attention to what God is saying and doing'. It means 'keep your eyes on God while you live'. Let the eyes of your heart and your spiritual ears be sensitive to anything God says or does while you are living your life.

So that was last week, some meditation on Micah 6:8. Now this week I've been looking at Micah 7:7-20. And I found something related in Micah 7:7 that's interesting. In the verb tense used here for 'will look' to the Lord, it means to 'watch closely'. So Micah is saying 'I will watch for the Lord closely'...or I will look intensely to the Lord. When everything and everyone is falling apart, i won't look to humans or human institutions/governments.

So I see Micah 7:7 is the response to Micah 6:8. In Micah 6:8 God reveals three things He is carefully seeking from mankind. In Micah 7:7 we have the resolution to do the third one. God looks for those who will 'pay attention to what He is saying and doing. Micah shows us the way to respond...resolve to 'look to the Lord'. Resolve to watch closely for the Lord.

Sometimes I think this is my greatest failure. When I fail to watch closely for the Lord, everything is affected. Sometimes I think this is also our greatest breakthrough. When we stop and wait. Take time to turn the 'eyes of our heart' to the Lord, everything is affected.

ESV Micah 6:8 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? (to walk humbly means to live paying attention to what God is saying and doing')

ESV Micah 7:7 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. (will look means watch closely)