A just-married man was sent by his wife to the store to pick up a ham. When he returned, his wife was aggravated he had failed to ask the butcher to cut off the end of the ham. “Why would you want the end cut off?” he asked. “Because,” the wife replied, “my mother always did it that way, and that’s good enough for me.” Unsatisfied, the man asked his mother-in-law about it. She replied that she was following the procedure her own mother had taught. At the next family gathering the young man – determined to get to the bottom of this three-generation culinary secret – asked the grandmother why she cut off the end of the ham. “Well, my roaster was too small to cook it in one piece,” she replied.

If with Christ you died…why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations.

Colossians 2:20

The church in the city of Colossae had been broken apart by false teachers who were mandating all sorts of rules that were wrongheaded and unscriptural. The apostle Paul’s message was, “You don’t have to do it that way anymore.”

Follow God, not man. Take your marching orders from Christ, and pray that America’s leaders may do the same.

Recommended Reading: Acts 5:27-32

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