Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley

When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 30:1-10

“Moses … promises that God will circumcise their heart to render them capable of loving Him.”

• Blaise Pascal, Thoughts (thought numbers 689)

Blaise Pascal, in his book, Thoughts (Pensées), makes a good summary of the Scripture above.

This is definitely End Times prophecy.  No matter how much we want to obey and please God, we will slip up on occasion.  God has the power to help us resist temptation, but the closer we get to Jesus, the more temptations there are.

But notice carefully what Pascal wrote.  It is God who circumcises our hearts.  It is not up to us.

We must desire it.  And then God will make it so.

So, what we must do is love God more.  But doesn’t God guide us in that direction?

Salvation is nothing that we do.

Sanctification is more about our willingness to let God do some Spring cleaning within us.

And in the end, we will finally know how to love perfectly.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.