“Say to all your people and your priests, ‘During these seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting? (Zechariah 7:5 NLT)
At times our prayers and religious observances can be an offense to God. We can say and do all the right things in the performance of our faith, but in our hearts, we are seeking to please ourselves and not God.

The Prophet Micah has told us what God requires of us. It is not about sacrifice, but doing justly and loving mercy (Micah 6:8). The focus here is not about how we sacrifice, but why. Is it for ourselves or God? The former only produces a self-centered religion.
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Ken Barnes the author of “The Chicken Farm and Other Sacred Places” YWAM Publishing
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Email: [email protected]
website: https://sites.google.com/site/kenbarnesbooksite/