Those of us who were brought up in various religious practices and cultures often make those rituals and social identities our only source of worship and acknowledgement of our Lord. These practices without a personal relationship will become stagnate and our beliefs of who God is will also become narrow in focus. Your service to the Lord and community will become mechanical and your works will begin to die although they are performed. You must abide in the Lord and develop your relationship to thrive in the things of God. It is impossible to walk and know the will of the Lord concerning you, without your own relationship.
