Good morning Foxx,
As you say, we have many traditions and habits that come from paganism that we don't even think about in that regard. For example the names of the days of the week, sun-day, moon-day, thor's-day, saturn's-day and so forth. The error, if there is one to be concerned about, is whether we make any day or any tradition an idol of the heart that we place above our reverence for and worship of the true God.
As true believers and followers of our Lord Jesus we are to consider each of these things carefully and to make righteous judgments concerning how they may affect us in our personal walk with God.
Thanks for your comments, Indianabob
Thanks Bob,I could not agree with you more.We should never exalt ourselves above that which is written.When we do so, we then put ourselves on the throne and condense Gods Word into idols of the heart, and in doing so, reduce Gods words into the traditions of men,which in turn take away the Rightful worship, that He so deserves.
We must always judge the spirit and not the person.In doing so, we can then have a deeper understanding of what the Word is conveying to all that believe,in Spirit and in Truth of His Word.
I myself try to never think above that which is is written
1Co 4:6. That for me is a high mark of attainment in my Spiritual journey,however hard that may be at times.The Word does not and can not lie...
Gal 4:10
You pay special attention to certain days, months, seasons, and years. Gal 4:11
I am worried about you! Can it be that all my work for you has been for nothing? Gal 4:12 I beg you, my friends, be like me. After all, I am like you. You have not done me any wrong.
Mat 15:6 And [thus] ye make void the word of God,
for the sake of your tradition.
Job 1:4 And his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one upon
his day; and they would
send and invite their three sisters to
eat and to drink with them. Job 1:5 And it was so, when
the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said:
'It may be that my sons have sinned, and blasphemed God in their hearts.' Thus did Job continually.
Job 3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and
cursed his day.
Job 3:2 And Job spake,
and said,
Job 3:3
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Mat 23:12
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he
that shall humble himself shall be exalted. Mar 7:8
Having, dismissed, the commandment, of God, ye,
hold fast,
the tradition, of men. Mar 7:9 And he was saying to them—Well, do ye set aside the commandment of God, that,
your own tradition, ye may observe;
1Jn 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father,
but is of the world.
Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and
not after Christ.Gal 4:9 But now, after that
ye have known God, or rather
are known of God, how
turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again
to be in bondage?
Col 2:20 Wherefore
if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though
living in the world,
are ye subject to ordinances,
Ecc 7:1
Better a name, than precious ointment,—and the
day of death,
than the day of one’s birth. Ecc 7:2
Better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the
house of banqueting, for, that,
is the end of all men,—and,
the living, should take it to his heart.Peace...Mark
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