Pray To Stay

He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:

This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
  -- Mark 7:6-7

This response from Jesus comes out of a story of washing, as in traditional washing handed down and policed by the Pharisees and scribes. The Pharisees had asked why the disciples following Jesus had not washed their hands before eating bread. The disciples were not dirty in the way of sanitation, but unclean by the traditions. Jesus named them hypocrites and told of a fulfilled prophecy of Isaiah, vain worship and man-made traditions for doctrine. How did they accomplish this? Lip service to God and hearts that were far from Him. 

Pray to stay with Jesus,

Bucky