Friday - What He asks of us

23: If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,
24: While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

To my mind this passage says that it is more important to live in harmony with other people (by extension the natural world) than to follow the forms of organized religion. Most of us no longer bring birds and goats to be slaughtered and burned at an alter. But others of us still participate in formal religious activities. These lines stand as a notice to us that outward forms without inner peace are of limited use.