Ouch! And Thank You!

Bibby’s Blessings
November 12, 2018

OUCH! AND THANK YOU!

“Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you may love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.” Deuteronomy 30:6

What’s that all about?
Simply put, circumcision was a new thing back in Abraham’s day. God asked him to cut the flesh from the dearest place; the place of a man’s paternity.

It was a way of identifying all that came from that place as belonging to HIM. Other men/children who were not Jews were not circumcised because they, nor their seed were HIS! (Pretty poignant picture, huh?)

In this verse, He just goes ahead and explains His ultimate, future intention…which is to cut from our HEARTS that which is dearest to us;dearer than HIM! For if our hearts were not circumcised, we would not be His!

Circumcision is painful; whether physically or spiritually.

But look at the reason! So that you may LOVE the LORD your God with everything you’ve got; first in your heart; dearer than all else! For then you will truly know what it means to LIVE with goals and a purpose that outlives this life!

God is a jealous God! He won’t allow us, if we are truly His own to love anything else more than we love Him. I don’t blame Him for that! We’re all pretty protective of what belongs to us! He will remove whatever it is that distracts us from whole hearted devotion to Him because He’s GOD and He can do that whether we want Him to or not!

We can make it difficult by kicking and screaming and thrashing at the process. Or we can see it for what it is, submit, and say “thank you.”

Does all that comes from your heart belong to Him? Can the world identify you as His?

They can if YOUR heart has been circumcised!

Your mother is praying….