Religion will not bring you joy. And I can tell you that if you don't have joy, you're on the wrong road. Religion is ritual without righteousness. Religion is ceremony that does not demand a change in your conduct. Religion is rich with tradition, but it is starving for joy.
Tradition is a rut.
A rut is wonderful if all you want to do is to go somewhere someone else has already gone. But when the Lord starts to do a new thing, if you are in the rut of religion, you can't follow it and you can't go with it. I'll tell you this, those that are in the rut will be unhappy when you come along with a joyful sound. The Pharisees had tradition and they were in a rut and when Jesus came proclaiming the joy of the world, they wanted to kill Him. Because religious people don't like joy.