Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

During their forty years travel in the wilderness the people of God complained, moaned and challenged the authority of the man of God, Moses. Although the majority of those who challenged Moses throughout the forty years that it took to arrive at the Promised Land died in the wilderness, the trait that they exhibited still lived on. 

The purpose of the circumcision was twofold. The first was to reinstitute the covenant that God made to Abraham and the second was to bring about transformation of the minds of the people. It was God’s intention for the hearts of the people to be circumcised as later stated by Ezekiel (36:26). When we speak about heart we are speaking about the centre of human being. In the time of the biblical writers it was thought that the centre of the human person was the heart and the entrails that surround it. We now know that the centre of the human being is the mind. And it is the mind that needs to be transformed as our thoughts become words which become actions then habits which determines our character and destiny.

For all that their parents went through in the wilderness there were still a minority of God’s people who thought that they knew better that the man that God spoke to.

We are reminded by a later biblical writer, Apostle Paul, that our battle is not against flesh and blood but against principalities, rulers of darkness and other spiritual forces in the atmosphere (Ephesians 6:12). So we are not called to fight each other but to be committed to each other and to the vision that God has given the leaders he has placed over us.

So today, be committed to what God ordained for you to do and ensure that your mind is continually renewed.

Read Ephesians 6:10-20.