"FOR NOT EVEN THOSE WHO ARE CIRCUMCISED KEEP THE LAW, but they desire to have you circumcised THAT THEY MAY BOAST IN YOUR FLESH."
Galatians 6:13 (NKJV)
Comment: Believers should avoid doing things that would be pleasing to Men, people, but to God. A believer who likes to show off or vaunt would want to please everyone, but such a person would find it difficult to please God (Galatians 1:10). In most cases, what God would have you done might not be supported by many people, even in the Christian fold or among the believers—you may not receive the full support.
Some Judaizers, Jewish believers, wanted the Galatian believers to be circumcised and practiced the old testament pattern of worship (Acts 15:1); they wanted to use the Galatian gentile believers who did that to boast and protect themselves from being persecuted—impressing their fellow Jews that they have succeeded in proselytizing the gentiles (Galatians 6:12,13).
Apostle Paul however was saying, they needed not the circumcision, those Judaizers pressuring them to do it wanted to use them to score a point (Galatians 4:17; 6:12,13). Doing it has no spiritual value whatsoever, It added nothing to them spiritually, but rather encumbered them with a burden and the responsibility to observe the whole law:
2 INDEED I, PAUL, SAY TO YOU THAT IF YOU BECOME CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST WILL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 3 AND I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN WHO BECOMES CIRCUMCISED THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO KEEP THE WHOLE LAW. 4 YOU HAVE BECOME ESTRANGED FROM CHRIST, YOU WHO ATTEMPT TO BE JUSTIFIED BY LAW; YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE" (Galatians 5:2-4 NKJV).
Whatever you would not need for your spiritual growth, edification, and the fulfilment of your assignment, should not be sentimentally subscribed to.
Do not be sentimental about your Christian faith; what would add nothing to you spiritually should not be done out of sentiment—because you wanted to please someone you respect. You should not be for another person's sounding board or egoism.
The believers who are usually victims of this are those who do not know how to say No to whatever they are being told to do, even when they know that what they are asked to do is not biblically right or sound.
It is good to reverence; respect and honour, whoever deserves it: "PAY TO ALL WHAT IS DUE THEM . . . RESPECT TO WHOM RESPECT IS DUE, HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE" (Romans 13:7 The New Revised Standard Version). However, no matter how you reverence someone, you should not do it to the detriment or strain of your relationship and communion with God.
Whatever anyone is telling you to do, either a spiritual father or mentor or whoever you Revere, you should know that your allegiance is primarily to God before any other person.
Your obedience should be to God first, and then to whoever stands as a spiritual authority over your life; and that is when the person is not contradictory to God's written Word and the specific instructions given you by God (Acts 4:19).
Peace.