What Does God Actually Require of You?

Micah 6 stages a trial: God summons the mountains as witnesses and prosecutes Israel. 'My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me.' The people ask: what sacrifice is enough? Thousands of rams? Ten thousand rivers of oil? My firstborn? Then the answer, famous enough to be carved on courthouses: 'He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.' Three things. No ritual. No animal. No child. In a book full of blood and disaster, this verse lands like a door opening onto a clear morning.