Circumcise Your Heart

Hello, I am glad you are here.

What does the saying, 'Circumcise your heart,' mean?

Circumcision is the removal of foreskin.

Initially, it was a promise to God. Perhaps better put, an acceptance of God's promise. A covenant. A holy symbol.

No matter how well intended the act of circumcision, the question had to be asked, is the symbol, or what it symbolized more important?

Is it possible for a woman that can not physically participate in male circumcision believe more fully than a man who's had it?

Yes, obviously, it is possible that she can.

This - in my opinion - is what circumcision of the heart means: To believe in the heart of God's law over the letter of it.

As Michael Stanley famously put it: "The Lord uses the good ones, and the bad ones use The Lord."

The Shakespearean quote, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," is not necessarily a condemnation of lawyers, but the observation on how easily misusing the letter of the law can lead to the corruption of it.

For example, when people like president Trump legal up, it isn't for justice. It is for the exact opposite. To force their will.

This is why it is hard to argue with the anti-virus - pro-work protesters. Legally, Constitutionally, they do have a leg to stand on. Freedom to assemble. Freedom of speech.

Yet, what good is it to gain the world, but lose your soul?

Yea, circumcise your hearts. Love your God with your whole heart. And the second commandment is the same as the first, love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two laws hang all the law and the prophets.

In this time of world wide crisis, these protesters with their guns, insurgent shouts of liberating their states, and general anti-government hate speech, are legally within their rights to demand that their states get back to work.

Other protesters have, now, died of Covid19. They shout, so what? People die.

Essential jobs are not being filled by these death or glory hogs.

They use the letter of the law against the heart of it.

They neither seek truth nor mercy.

They impose on people burdens hard to carry, but they themselves do not lift one finger to help them.

Whatever happened to if they take away your jacket, give them your overcoat as well?

If we don't all hang together we shall all hang separately?

The answer is easy.

Love. Respect. Honor.

Circumcise your heart and you will know.