Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Deuteronomy 30:1-10
by: Joy Choquette.
Circumcision requires a cutting away. Verse 6 of this passage says that God would “circumcise your hearts…so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live” (NIV). What does it mean to have a circumcised heart? Being willing to have all the “extras” cut away. What distracts us from God? Worries about the world and its judgement of us; fears about the future; obsession about material things or comfort or living a life without troubles. Circumcision of the heart requires us to open ourselves up to God’s work, His plans, and His desires for us.
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