How far the wrong path will take us...

He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me,teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” (Matthew 15:3-9 ESV) These leaders had taken the wrong path, heading down Human Tradition Lane instead of Divine Revelation Trail. We think we know best, even better than God, how we should live. While proclaiming to honor their fathers by keeping their traditions, what they ended up doing is dishonoring their fathers by writing them off as has-beens, not worth the time of day. Have we "written off" our elders, thinking we have discovered a better way than God revealed to them?