“Now in light of all that, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you? Only this: to revere the Lord your God by walking in all his ways, by loving him, by serving the Lord your God with all your heart and being, and by keeping the Lord’s commandments and his regulations that I’m commanding you right now. It’s for your own good!
Clearly, the Lord owns the sky, the highest heavens, the earth, and everything in it. But the Lord adored your ancestors, loving them and choosing the descendents that followed them–you!–from all other people. That’s how things still stand now. So circumcise your hearts and stop being so stubborn because the Lord your God is the God of all gods and Lord of all lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who doesn’t play favorites and doesn’t take bribes.
He enacts justice for orphans and widows, and he loves immigrants, giving them food and clothing. That means you must also love immigrants because you were immigrants in Egypt. Revere the Lord your God, serve him, cling to him, swear by his name alone! He is your praise, and he is your God–the one who performed these great and awesome acts that you witnessed with your very own eyes. Your ancestors went down to Egypt with a total of seventy people, but now look! The Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the nighttime sky!”
-Deuteronomy 10:12-22-
This is an amazing passage of Gods word! The part that I would like to focus on today is the phrase, “circumcise your hearts and stop being so stubborn because the Lord your God is the God of all gods and Lord of all lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who doesn’t play favorites and doesn’t take bribes.”
I’m stubborn. Very stubborn. I have an idea in my head of how things should go. As a youth worker when I am planning some event or worship gathering for Fusion Students I have an idea of what I think is the best way for it to happen.
Can you relate to this feeling?
I think we all have an idea of how we want our lives to go by. We make plans and set goals, because there are certain things that we believe we are called to do. I believe that I am called to be a pastor, and I have set goals to accomplish this goal. However, the manner in which this goal is achieved is not up to me. The path that I will be traveling is only known by God.
You see sometimes we forget how far we have come and even more who enabled us to come that far. Without Christ we are nothing. Period. In this life we are distracted by many things, but the one thing that is constant is that God is always present in our lives! The things that seem worthy of our attention distract us from what truly deserves our attention.
So, circumcise your hearts and get rid of all the junk that distracts us from the one true God and CLING TO CHRIST!! Because He is the only constant in this life.
“Revere the Lord your God, serve him, cling to him, swear by his name alone!”