Circumcision of the heart

In Genesis 17: 13-14} “He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.” 14. “And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.” Granted that God made a covenant with the nation of Israel and this covenant is not exclusive for those in the nation but all poeple within the nation both the strangers of that land, no doubt tells the person of God in the aspect of not being a respecter of persons. You cannot work your way into God’s family. That is religion! God's way is to obey and love Him by keeping his commandments through the love of Christ. Circumcision in the flesh matters not but a true circumcision is from the heart not the letter On the contrary some of the natives may reject the circumcision and may recieve the penalty of being ostracized fron the nation if they remained uncircumcised, But for the Nation of Israel, God did not call an individual but a nation in the Old Testament covenant. the Nation is what God made the covenanat with and not the individaul israelite. But for the church, God is calling out a people to His name and in 1 Peter 2:9 } But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a poeple for his own possesion, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. We are individuals with a circumcised heart to serve God, not that we belong to any nation but that we belong to God and obey His commandments.