Traditions (Mark 7:6-7)

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

They worship me in vain, they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.

Mark 7:6-7

There is this human condition,
we cling to.
It is tradition.
Someone long ago said
it must be done in a certain way.

We labor to do so

without knowing why a certain task

is performed.

A prophet said,

when man's course was still young,

that these people would honor

with nothing more than their lips.

They would speak worn out passages

and kiss icons,

while standing in the hypocrisy of traditions,

and laws

of their own design.

Their worship is in vain,

when molded by man's doctrine.

The commandments of God

have been overshadowed

by the precepts of man.

Tradition,

a human condition,

closing the doors of faith.

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