Every time we try—rightly—to form a spiritual habit we find ourselves walking a tightrope! Simply because the habit can come to be seen as valuable for itself, and the benefit it was designed to bring gets forgotten. Isaiah saw this all round him. People were congratulating themselves on religious habits; they never failed to bring the sacrifices the Lord commanded, the right animal for the right occasion. They were never missing from the Lord’s courts. Why, they
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