UNFRUITFUL RELIGIOUS ROUTINES

Zechariah 7:5-6 "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ’When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?  And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

Motives are very important to God. In the life of Jesus Christ, He constantly rebuked the religious teachers of His time for having wrong motives. Why you do what you do is very important to God. Good deeds with wrong intentions are an abomination before God.

Zechariah Seven begins this way;  Zechariah 7:2-3 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the LORD
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD Almighty and the prophets, "Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?" The two men were sent to seek God through the priest about a ritual they have been going through for many years. What happened differently that year? Why are they now going to inquire of God about something they have done all these years? Pause and think about it. Am very sure the many years of constant mourning and fasting in the fifth month have not brought any significant changes in their lives. They paused to think, why are we not making any progress? And they realized is time to turn back to God to ask Him if we doing things right. As individuals, believers, families, communities, churches, nations, tribes, corporate entities and so on. There are routines we have followed for so many years without any significant results. Is time to ask God why we are missing it. What are we not doing right?

God is a good God that any time we ask He answers, but this time His answer was rhetorical. "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ’When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? As an individual, believers, churches, and organizations we have to ask ourselves is God the reason for our actions? Why do we build what we build, sing the songs we sing, dress the way we do, th end-of-year themes, the cross-over nights, the constant new year fasting and prayers, the fixed annual programs and personal routines; why do we do them? If we do all these without for ourselves and not for God, they are worthless and we won't bear much. May we do all things as unto the Lord.

Prayer: Father forgive us for not having you in mind in our daily routines. Holy Spirit, renew our minds; may it all be about you in Jesus' name. Amen

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