Heart Conditions: Uncircumcised Hearts

The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Deuteronomy 30:6 (NKJV)

Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.

Deuteronomy 10:16 (NKJV)

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

Acts 7:51 (NKJV)

In many of our world’s modern cultures, the circumcision of boys is common. In ancient Israel, it was ordered.

'Circumcision was instituted, not only as a sign and seal of the Covenant into which the Israelites entered with their Maker, but also as a type of that purity and holiness which the Law of God requires...' (Clarke's Commentary on the Bible re: Acts 7:51).*

Consider:

  • When God describes a heart as ‘circumcised’, it’s pure, tender, and devoted to Him.

  • When God describes it as ‘uncircumcised’, it’s foul, hardened, and resists His Spirit.

Therefore:

'Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by Whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you' (Ephesians 4:30-32).

Actors, models, and talent for Christ: I have seen and know your hearts are tender. They beat in love and mercy, as Christ’s did.

Therefore:

  • When haters in church reveal their hard hearts,

  • And condemn all the people they don’t like,

  • Shouting God’s laws, but ignoring His love,

  • Forgetting His greater Order to love,

  • Forgive even them. Forgive everyone.

  • Plow the tough soil. Dispense kindness, and wait…

Heart Conditions: Uncircumcised Hearts (Part 5)

* Clarke's Commentary on Acts 7:51: http://biblecommenter.com/acts/7-51.htm

NOTE: This is a 2023 update of a 2013 Carey Lewis Devotion. You may see notes to 'Actors, Models & Talent for Christ.' If you think you're not in show business, think again. Shakespeare said, 'All the world's a stage and all its men and women merely players. Mostly true. But you're not merely players. You are messengers and ambassadors for the King of kings.

Carey Arban