Focus: Galatians 5:6 - KJV
6. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
James 2:14-20
Paul in his ministry had to make it clear to his audience that there need not be a dichotomy between the circumcised and the uncircumcised. The believer is a believer if his heart and not necessarily his flesh is circumcised. For the circumcised by flesh assumed that by natural birth, they were of Abraham and therefore solely entitled to the promise of God. It is a good thing to obey God to circumcise the flesh but more profitable to obey Him through the circumcision of the heart.
Those that circumcised the flesh and hinged on to the faith of Abraham without loving the brethren are absolutely averse to God for not obeying His commandment. Wherefore, Paul admonished that if our faith is without works it is dead. The work of faith is found in love. We cannot claim to be of Christ and be approached by the naked for succor and just tell the same it is well without doing anything to succor him while we can. That is dead faith, whether circumcised in the flesh or not. When we deal in love, then we show forth good faith and represent God well.
Let our faith in Christ show through the love we bestow on others and not necessarily by our seeming sober appearances, bushy hair/beard, long dresses and the like. Let the Lord be seen in us through the love we show everywhere and every time, not piecemeal but as a way of life. Our fleshly circumcision avails nothing in Christ. it is only our heart circumcision which inevitably exhumes love, that matters to Him. Let us therefore, be determined to show love in our faith from this day so as to be pleasing to our Lord.
Please pray:
Father, I want to be pleasing to you. I know you want me to love just like you are Love. Please help me not to fail you in that aspect of my faith in you. Even from this day, give me the abundant grace to show love everywhere I go in the name of Jesus. Beginning from my immediate family and throughout the whole world, let the love that you stand for, be found in me always that my faith may be genuine and avail much, in Jesus’ name.
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