A Change of Heart

“For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” (Philippians 3:3)

God is concerned about the heart of man. When Samuel the prophet was in the process of choosing to replace Saul as king of Israel, thinking his mission had been accomplished with the choice of Jesse’s oldest son, Eliab, the LORD said to Samuel, “Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” (I Samuel 16:7) In His concern for what is inside us, God further tells us, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)

Finally, the Bible says, “He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter…” (Romans 2:28-29)

It takes more than a surgeon’s knife to make a Jew or to bring salvation to a lost sinner. A change of heart can happen only by the grace of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.