Moment to Moment (Bible blog)
Jesus’ words to the Pharisees really hit me today.
He said to them,
This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
They worship me in vain… (Mark 7:6-7)
I can teach all the right things, I can say all the right things, I can even do a lot of good things.
But does my heart truly belong to God? Is my heart truly his? If not, all my acts of “worship” are empty and fruitless in His eyes.
Lord, search me and know my heart. May it truly belong to you in every way. Amen.
Jesus’ words strike me in this passage. Quoting from Isaiah, he says,
This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.They worship me in vain,
teaching as doctrines human commands. (Mark 7:6-7)
And then he said,
“Abandoning the command of God, you hold on to human tradition…You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up your tradition. (8-9)
Nowadays, many Christian churches seem to be going down this path. Instead of following the commands of God, they are following the teaching of the world.
They invalidate God’s command in order to follow the world’s teaching on what’s right and wrong, and how we should live.
How about you? Are you abandoning the commands of God in order to follow the teaching of the world?
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