There is a common phrase that we use, "We are only going through the motions". Your heart is not in it. You do it because you need to either look good or it is something that you have always done, and you do it without thinking about the reason for your actions. Why do you visit your in-laws? Why do you greet your boss GOOD morning? Why do you go to church or any place of worship? Zechariah highlighted here that the people were engaged in religious activities because "they were going through the motions". Zechariah 7:5-7 “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for Me? When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? Should you not have obeyed the words which the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South and the Lowland ...