No,
A
True Jew
Is
One Whose Heart Is Right With God.
Scripture
Romans
2
29 No,
a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true
circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the law; rather, it
is a change of heart produced by the Spirit. And a person with a
changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people.
Observation
I
meet with a group of pastors every Wednesday for lunch, prayer, and
accountability. I have been meeting with these men for over 12 or 13
years.
Last
week our conversation drifted to the events happening with the nation
of Israel and just like belly buttons all of us have our opinions
about the Middle East and how all of this fits in to God's final
plan, end times, or in pastor's language, “eschatology”!
And
none of us know, what we think we know, when it comes to end times
stuff because God doesn't want us to know exactly how He is going to
wrap everything up in the end!
So
I don't want you to comment about what you think about Israel because
that is not what Romans 2:29 is all about … what the Apostle Paul
is talking about in this verse is not them … no, what the Apostle
Paul is talking about in this verse is you … and … he is talking
about me!
Is
our heart right with God today?
It
is way to easy for us to be critical of everybody else and point out
the wickedness or weakness in everybody else. God describes the human
heart in Jeremiah 17:9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of
all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how
bad it is?”
What
I want this week is for my heart to overflow with the fruit of the
Holy Spirit that is described in Galatians 5:22-23 “But the Holy
Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Application
What
I want this week is for my heart to overflow with the fruit of the
Holy Spirit that is described in Galatians 5:22-23 “But the Holy
Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self-control. There is no law against these things! … How
about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, help me to keep my focus on how You want me to live my life.
It is not my job to point out all the sin in everybody else. I am
broken and I am a sinner saved by Your grace. I don't deserve the
life that I have. Thank You for the miracles, of lives that have been
changed by You. You have given us the ministry of reconciliation. Let
that ministry be my main task. Fill me, control me, with Your Holy
Spirit so that people see Jesus in me.
Daily
Bible Reading: 1 Kings 7; 2 Chronicles 4; Psalms 98; Romans 2
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