"The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live."
{Deuteronomy 30:6} (NIV 1984)
Oh the grace of YHWH! In the midst of the promises and warnings of temporal blessing or curses, here we have a promise of spiritual grace. Our Lord taught us that the most important of all the commandments, is this one: to love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul...
Here we have the promise of the Spirit given to us by Moses. God is the One who will cause us to love Him. How? By circumcising our hearts. How can a man or a woman circumcise their hearts? The Lord is the heart surgeon! It is He who reaches into our innermost being and by the power of the Holy Spirit cuts away the sin nature and brings forth pure and righteous love for our Creator and our God. The end result of this surgery is life for us! It is what we need. We need to love God, for loving Him brings life! We need to obey God, for obedience to Him brings life! We need to worship God, for worship of Him brings life! Friend, is the love of God in our heart this day?
Renew our love for You, O Lord. O Holy Spirit, bring forth pure love for the Father, from the depths of my being. May we be people who love you will all of our hearts, all of our souls, all of our lives.
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