A Few Words About Circumcision
Today's Daily Devo is going to take a sharp left turn right out of the gate. Buckle up. "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value." - Galatians 5:6a Nothing like starting your day off with an awesome and inspiring verse about circumcision, am I right? This verse was part of a letter sent to a first-century church in Galatia (in modern day Turkey) by the Apostle Paul. Paul was responding to some critics of his, who had showed up at the Galatian church and began telling them that everything Paul had taught them about what it meant to be a follower of Jesus was wrong. These critics taught that the only true way to be a follower of Jesus was to convert to Judaism, which meant that you had to keep the 613 laws that are found in the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures), and you had to be... circumcised. Paul believed that keeping laws and being circumcised didn't make you a follower o...