"I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious."
(Acts 17:22)
I believe there are basically three steps in making a religious mold. First, you create a habit, which in time becomes a tradition, generally ending in superstition. Granted, the former two are accepted and even useful, in a scriptural context; the third one, never. The two goods can add up to bad if the third is added to the equation.
Forming a good and godly habit that becomes more or less traditional can be an excellent thing. But when, for example, your posture, as well as your petitions, in prayer end in superstition, that mold needs to be broken. The same can be true of our Bible reading, as well as scores of other spiritual rituals we adhere to.
Whenever a child of God is held to some type of a formal, ritualistic pattern, no matter how acceptable, that leaves them feeling a kind of pagan taboo is upon them, they have become a superstitious saint.
If this be true of any of us, I think it time we break the mold. Don't you agree?
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