Scripture: Zechariah 7
In Zechariah 7 ,the Jewish people had been mourning and fasting. After they had returned from exile, a delegation of the people had come to the priests asking if they should continue to fast and mourn. It had been done for years, leading the people to wonder if it needed to be continued. During the period of captivity to the Babylonians, God questioned whether the people were truly fasting for Him. The people had the wrong motives, they were doing it for themselves as an outward display of religion. The prophets had spoken to this issue years before . After all that the nation had gone through, the people were acting no better than their ancestors who had been taken into captivity. How does this theme reflect in the lives of us as believers?Have our worship to God become Ritualistic and Legalistic in nature?
