I was reading in the Gospel of Mark and just happened to come across the conversation that the Pharisees and Teachers were having with Jesus. It caught my attention. It wasn’t a pleasant conversation. There is a lot of tension here. It isn’t good. The religious leaders were challenging Jesus concerning his disciples failing to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating. Jesus answers strongly, yet wisely in Mark 7:6-7 (NLT) , “Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.” The reality for us is that we can get so preoccupied with attending to religious things, that we become robotic and routine with our “obligations” to our faith and Church. Maybe it is like the saying “You can become so Heavenly minded that you become no earthly good.” We can get so caught u...
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