The Sign of the Circumcision

It is that by which we remember it is always God's way in God's time.

In the Old Covenant it is a physical circumcision in the flesh, and it reminded all in that Covenant, that the nations promised Abraham 's descendants is of Issac and not Ishmael, ie of a promise and not of any man's work.

Ishmael was man trying to fulfil the promise of God for God in man's ways.

But Issac is God's way in God's time.

And that of man now constantly war against that of the promise.

In the New Covenant the circumcision is of the heart, in that instead of taking it in our hands, to pursue the desires of the heart - even if these were God-given - we wait upon God to fulfil it for us, in his ways and in his times.

And our hearts will bleed and be in pain, even as bloody and painful as circumcision in the flesh would have been.

This however is antithetical to common human beliefs of how we live our lives, which are build upon notions such visions, strategies, and plans.

And it is not passitivity. It is being wise and being trueful to who God really is. It is being ever vigilant, listening and ready to move and to act, in ways learnt of God, and in times revealed by God.

And no other way shall it be, for only God's ways shall come to past.

And if we try to fulfil God's plans for God in our way, it may not lead to good, as shown by history.

Rather the only way we walk our lives, is one step at a time.

And if we do plan, it is to the extent we are able to forsee, and usually this is just a few steps ahead only, unless augmented by prophecies; and we seek to align our plan with God's, namely, in His ways and in His times.

The LORD foils the plans of the nations;
he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations ...

But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love ...
[Ps 33:10-11,18]