What is?

Matthew Fifteen,



Vere Two to Four
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They dont wash their hands before they eat!" Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and "anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

The first thing that hit me was the word tradition, or religious acts is something that we might say. In this context they spoke of food, but in my mind im talking about the things we do. Our minds are this way but our hearts are another. In this text I feel like my heart is divided, although this passage speaks about honoring your father and mother I am also going to speak about God, THE FATHER!. In my personal life I have all these "duties" or certain things that i must do to gain the love of God, or His affection. But knowing that all is not like that and that His love is free for all is something that till this day gets to me. I still have this legalistic attitude which somewhat leads my life but as God is teaching me more and even in verse Eight; These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. God looks at the heart, not actions and deeds there not enough quiet times or worship services that could be led or done by me to gain His love. I need to fully trust in His love that it saves me every single day. I feel like everyday needs to be a fight, unclean or clean or should I say clean. I need to stop trying to "wash my hands before i eat" because what good will that do if they just get dirty again. But i need to wash or clean what i dirty my hands with because i know there are a lot of things that i dirty my hands with that are not glorifying or building up the kingdom of God in my life. I need to wash myself or rid myself of those things.


My application,

Dirty or not dirty i need to rid myself of those types of things in my life that make me need to clean. I know that in my life i have certain things like my pride, my selfishness, my guilt, my acts of sexual immorality and they are things that i need to rid myself of or things i need to divide myself of so i can be one with Christ. So His thoughts would be mine.


=).