In addiction, life was incredibly complicated. It was a tangled web of manipulation, consequence management, and survival. Even when we enter recovery, we often overcomplicate our spiritual lives, believing God requires massive, impossible feats of religious perfection to keep us in His good graces. But God’s requirements are beautifully, blessedly simple. He asks for three things: act justly (do the right thing), love mercy (freely give the grace you desperately need), and walk humbly with Him. Walking humbly is the foundation of the journey. It is the pace at which we must travel. It means we don’t sprint ahead of God in arrogant self-reliance, nor do we stubbornly drag our feet in the past. We simply walk beside Him, matching His stride, trusting that He knows the way through the wilderness. | 
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