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Today’s Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 30-31

Today’s Devotional: Deuteronomy 30:1-10

Growing in the knowledge and understanding of the Lord does two things primarily; it keeps us close to the Lord and gives us something to be called back to our mind calls us back to Him whenever we’ve stumbled, been overtaken, or have grown weary in our walks with the Lord. This is one of many major reasons why the Holy Spirit has been given to live within the Believer and does in the life of any Believer; to remind us of what we have been told from the Word, who we are and how valuable we are to Him.

His desire is then that our response is to return to Him with all our hear and soul. The Lord brings those close who call on Him, Paul in Philippians 1 when writing to the Philippian Believers said that he was confident that the Lord would complete the good work which He had started in them because of their steadfastness to the Word of God and the convictions of the Holy Spirit which produced God’s Agape love in their life.

Deuteronomy 30:6 Moses tells the children of Israel that it’s the Lord who circumcises our hearts. In Philippians 3 Paul wrote to the Philippian Believers to beware or be mindful of those who pressure works of the flesh for salvation or spiritual growth, that we have to put the work in and complete a list of rules, complete certain chores, or a list of chores in our lives before we can be acceptable to God and/or accepted within the Body of Christ. But we trust in the completed work of Jesus Christ on the cross, we accept the Word of God and it’s authority in our lives, then we turn to Him so that He can complete His work within us; this is what it means to be the author and finisher of our faith. We do this with our whole heart and soul. We trust in His power and ability to bring us closer to Him and in Him.

Deuteronomy 30:6 it is the heart which God desires to circumcise, and it’s not a work we can do or complete by any means that His Holy Spirit, and He desires to do the same in the lives of our children. It’s in the heart that He’s circumcised that will love Him with all our heart and soul, then truly live an abundant and spirit filled life.

The Lord desires to rejoice over us for good, we must then obey His voice and walk not as the deceived heart we read about in Deuteronomy 29:19 “I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my own heart.” We don’t walk according to what is right in the sight of the world or our own eyes but we let God’s Word illuminates our life and our path so that we may walk through this life unhindered by the same things which hinder the rest of the world. God’s Word gives us a step up in this world, and God tells us not to trust in our Strength but to trust in His Spirit.