Why do we go to the Lord? Let me share part of Micah 4:2. “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.”

Why do we go to the Lord? To learn His ways. We read in Psalm 103 how the Lord made His ways known to Moses. David pleads, “Teach me Your ways, O Lord.”

He teaches the humble His way. That’s from Psalm 25.

Those who love the Lord and look to the Lord learn His ways. He is a ready and willing teacher. Listen to this lament from God.

Jeremiah 32:33 (NKJV) And they have turned to Me the back, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

Why? Why does He want us to know His ways?

“That we may walk in His paths.”

Then we will follow the paths, or even, we could say, the footsteps He’s left for us to walk in, to follow. Then we are doing right. Then we are doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly, going His way and not our own.

Why does God want us walking in His paths?

Where does His path lead?

Psalm 23 says that He leads us on the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. The end of the psalm, where it’s leading, is dwelling in the house of the Lord forever.

He wants to bring us to Himself. He wants to lead us home. He is the Way. We have to walk with Him. We have to know Him, so we know the Way to go and will find ourselves on the right path.