Do you practice religion?
There is nothing that I can do that will make me be accepted by God. My charitable deeds, time in worship, and conduct does not make me righteousness before a Holy God.
If you mean by Christianity then yes, I do in a way practice religion. The practice of Christianity is not man doing things to appease God to be made right before Him. It is man loving God and His neighbors. Being led by the Holy Spirit, not by a basis of laws. It is submitting oneself in faith to Jesus Christ. Through His life, death, and resurrection, I am made right before God. He is the way, truth, and life. I can only draw near to the Father because of what Jesus Christ has done for me.
The Law was only a guide to right living before a Holy God. The Law could never rectify what the LORD required. True undefiled religion is this: Worshipping God by loving those in need and being undefiled by the spirit of this world.
My service to God comes from a heart of gratitude and reverence. He sacrificed Himself even when we were still sinners. Our rejection of Him did not stop His Love for us. This is why I worship Him.
James 1:26–27 (NKJV): 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Galatians 3:21–25 (NKJV): 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
John 14:5–7 (NKJV): 5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
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