Religious Traditions

 

“While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable:

“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up.

Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants.

Still other seed fell on good soil.

It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.”

Luke 8:4-8

 

Often the seed that falls on the path is correctly likened to things like a proud heart, a bitter spirit and fearfulness.

One adverse heart condition that is often overlooked is when the soil of the heart is hardened by religious traditions.

A heart that is unyielding because,

“Bless God, we’ve done it this way for five generations and

I don’t think I need or want to change!”

The man or woman who holds to their religious traditions come hell or high water is most often not a person who is sensitive to allowing the seed of God’s word to germinate in their heart let alone grow a hundred fold increase.

Some traditions are certainly valuable and worth holding on to.

But when any religious tradition stands in the way of allowing the Holy Spirit to till the Word that is sewn in your heart in order to bring growth; then that is a tradition to release.

Forget the white knuckle death hold you have on it.

Evaluate, and then jettison, those ‘traditions’ which have become bondages.

 Sit with the Holy Spirit and allow Him to identify any areas that need to go...