Luke 11:38-41
38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner. 39 Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness. 40 Foolish ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also? 41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; then indeed all things are clean to you.
How easily ceremony and tradition wash away the thoughts and intents of the heart! Let us not make the same mistake of looking only at the externals at the expense of where we stand with God and man - in that order. Loving others by meeting needs with the right motive of loving others as ourselves leads to a clean heart and true religion as James says. If we love God, we love others in deed and not for our own acclaim or reward.
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