The first thing God put on my heart when I trusted Christ was an disdain for ritual and idols.
Most people have little understanding of what an idol is or that we can have an idol in our mind simply by placing something or someone above Christ.
We worship in Spirit and in Truth, no need for earthly objects.
We worship in Spirit and in Truth, no need for human traditions to make me sense God's closeness.
The Holy Spirit provides all that I need all the time. No need for special days, observances or any other tradition of men to know how near my God is, even inside of me.
Colossians 2:8
"8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[a] of the world, and not according to Christ."
Matthew 15:3
"He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?"
2 Timothy 4:2-4
"Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."
1 Timothy 4:7
"Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;"
