Yet the Lord had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them.
He chose their descendants after them—he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.
Therefore, circumcise your hearts and don’t be stiff-necked any longer. (Deuteronomy 10:15-16)
“Circumcise your hearts.” What does that mean?
Circumcision was a ritual that the Israelites performed on the men to show that they belonged to God. And yet, for many of them, they were not circumcised in heart.
In other words, their hearts did not truly belong to God.
Instead, they clung to their old patterns of thinking and patterns of life. Patterns that hindered their walk with God.
I recently gave a message in church about how Abram (later renamed “Abraham”) had that exact same problem. And he had to learn to cut these patterns out of his life so that his whole heart could belong to God. (Genesis 12)
God has set his heart on us and loved us just as he did with Abram.
Do we really believe that?
If so, what parts of your life are keeping you from completely trusting him and following him?
With God’s help and the help of his people, let’s cut out those areas of our life so that we can truly love him with all our heart and soul, walking in a way pleasing to him. (12)
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