Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: September 6th Morning “Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God.” Mark 7:1-23 John 7:1 It was a sign of stormy weather when these ill birds came together. John 7:6-8 These were the ancestors of our modern Ritualists, who are fast bound with idle forms and vain ceremonials, and make a great matter of the cut of a garment, or the colour of a robe. John 7:9 The keeping of human commands always leads to the neglect of the divine. Superstition strangles true religion. John 7:10-13 If an ungrateful son did not care to give his parents what they asked, he had only to say that he had made an offering of it, and he was free from all obligation to succour his parents. This was a forcible example of the way in which tradition made void the law of God; but many such might have been quoted, for the Rabbis openly exalted their precepts above the law of Moses. In their Talmud we read, “The words of the scribes are mor...