What You Love : The Traditions We Inherit - Matthew 9:14-17

We love our traditions, in church and at home. These traditions are good. Yet at times, they can obscure the good news of Jesus. We fail to teach our traditions well to our children and others. We refuse to change our old ways when they no longer convey the same message. We hold on to the things that we like or that we prefer, and we fail to pick up new practices that are more helpful. We do not honor our traditions or the important truths they teach, when we fail to explain and teach their purpose, and when we refuse to change them when necessary. Jesus has brought us into a new covenant. A new thing that God has done, where he has saved us in Jesus! No longer do we need to do everything God's people did before, because God has done a new thing in Jesus, where the law has been fulfilled, the price for sin has been paid, and old practices need not be done. Jesus has brought us the good news of the Gospel that has saved us from our sins, that we point to with our traditions, and that will one day bring us into perfection of life with him.