READ: 2 PETER 1:13-14
Circumcision is the hallmark of the chosen.
According to today’s reading, God told Abraham to both circumcise himself as
well as every male in his family, as his part of the covenant between the two
of them. Just imagine an hundred years old man undergoing circumcision! Yet God
requires this from everyone who is chosen. Circumcision involves trimming down.
It is a painful experience. When Paul was chosen, he had to trim down by
counting his past gains as loss so as to have a new gain, Christ. If God has
chosen you as His signet, you will have to trim down heavily. You may have to
set aside your academic achievements and become what the world would call a
‘fool’. You may have to drastically cut off the company of ungodly friends.
Your taste and desires may have to change.
If you are chosen, your ears will only respond to things that glorify God. You can no more listen to worldly music and dance to it. You will have to deny your flesh; its cravings and force it to flow the way God wants it. Are you circumcised? The chosen has willingly relinquished his will to God. If you are still struggling with obeying God’s instructions, it is an evidence that you are not circumcised. If you are still battling with unforgiveness, malice, and anger, you have not been circumcised. As a wife, if you are still finding difficult to submit to your husband, it shows you are not circumcised.
The chosen can stand in the gap for others. He can intercede for others, like Moses did for Israel (Numbers 14:19-20). But if he makes a mistake, nobody would plead for him. This is another way of saying God will not tolerate several errors from the chosen. If you are chosen, then you must strive not to make a single mistake. When Moses made his second mistake in forty years, it cost him everything (Numbers 20:7-12). If the chosen repents after a mistake, he will be pardoned but he will be severely punished like David (2 Samuel 12:1-14). The sword he sent to kill Uriah is still terrorizing Israel till today, thousands of years after. If you are chosen, then you must not play with sin even for a minute. Compromise is totally a taboo.
If you are chosen, your ears will only respond to things that glorify God. You can no more listen to worldly music and dance to it. You will have to deny your flesh; its cravings and force it to flow the way God wants it. Are you circumcised? The chosen has willingly relinquished his will to God. If you are still struggling with obeying God’s instructions, it is an evidence that you are not circumcised. If you are still battling with unforgiveness, malice, and anger, you have not been circumcised. As a wife, if you are still finding difficult to submit to your husband, it shows you are not circumcised.
The chosen can stand in the gap for others. He can intercede for others, like Moses did for Israel (Numbers 14:19-20). But if he makes a mistake, nobody would plead for him. This is another way of saying God will not tolerate several errors from the chosen. If you are chosen, then you must strive not to make a single mistake. When Moses made his second mistake in forty years, it cost him everything (Numbers 20:7-12). If the chosen repents after a mistake, he will be pardoned but he will be severely punished like David (2 Samuel 12:1-14). The sword he sent to kill Uriah is still terrorizing Israel till today, thousands of years after. If you are chosen, then you must not play with sin even for a minute. Compromise is totally a taboo.
MEMORIZE: GENESIS 17:10 –This is My
covenant, which you shall keep between Me and you and your seed after you;
Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
