Tradition

Matthew 15:1-3 (NIV)

 1Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!" 3Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

They ask Jesus why He goes against their tradition.  Over time they have come to see their tradition as the command of God.  How easy it is for this to happen the further one gets from the Word of God.  Repetition turns into tradition. Tradition and truth mix, and it becomes hard to tell them apart.  

That is why renewing in the Word is so important.  Each day we need to drink from the well of living water, that our spirits would be refreshed and muddled thinking is washed away in the water of His truth.

The Son has arisen and it is our gift to look upon His light.  It is for His sake we live, not for the sake of the tradition of men.