A New Heart
Text: _I will give you a new heart … I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh…_ Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV
Here, the Lord is talking about a heart transplant, though not a physical transplant, but a spiritual one. The heart is more than a bodily organ that pumps life-giving blood to the rest of the body. The heart is symbolic of all that it means to be human. There are about 3,500 heart transplants done every year around the world, and we may well be one of the first generation to understand how a new heart can replace an old one. Therefore, we can understand how a new heart can radically change and alter us forever. And having such a new heart will give us a strange and wondrous feeling that Someone greater than ourselves is living inside us, and how grateful we are to the One who has given it to us so that we may live. We can be grateful, because beating inside of us is God’s own heart. Often times when we think of the heart, we think of it in terms of love, romance, and compassion. And while the heart may be that, in the Bible the heart is the seat of wisdom; it is where all of our decisions are made. Solomon said that as a person thinks in their heart, that is who they really are (Proverbs 23:7a).
On the conflicting end, it is from our hearts that most of our problems develop. The prophet Jeremiah makes this observation; “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV). And so the condition of our hearts is extremely important. Jesus said, “The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45 NIV). And while this is the main reason why we need a new heart, that is, our hearts are evil because of the sin nature inside of us, we also need a new heart, a heart of flesh, because our hearts have become hardened by the trials and cruelty of life. Ask God for a new heart that will follow His will for your life. It is safer to do so.
Prayer:
Father, grant unto me a heart that will follow Your will for me in Jesus’ Name.
Text: _I will give you a new heart … I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh…_ Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV
Here, the Lord is talking about a heart transplant, though not a physical transplant, but a spiritual one. The heart is more than a bodily organ that pumps life-giving blood to the rest of the body. The heart is symbolic of all that it means to be human. There are about 3,500 heart transplants done every year around the world, and we may well be one of the first generation to understand how a new heart can replace an old one. Therefore, we can understand how a new heart can radically change and alter us forever. And having such a new heart will give us a strange and wondrous feeling that Someone greater than ourselves is living inside us, and how grateful we are to the One who has given it to us so that we may live. We can be grateful, because beating inside of us is God’s own heart. Often times when we think of the heart, we think of it in terms of love, romance, and compassion. And while the heart may be that, in the Bible the heart is the seat of wisdom; it is where all of our decisions are made. Solomon said that as a person thinks in their heart, that is who they really are (Proverbs 23:7a).
On the conflicting end, it is from our hearts that most of our problems develop. The prophet Jeremiah makes this observation; “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV). And so the condition of our hearts is extremely important. Jesus said, “The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45 NIV). And while this is the main reason why we need a new heart, that is, our hearts are evil because of the sin nature inside of us, we also need a new heart, a heart of flesh, because our hearts have become hardened by the trials and cruelty of life. Ask God for a new heart that will follow His will for your life. It is safer to do so.
Prayer:
Father, grant unto me a heart that will follow Your will for me in Jesus’ Name.
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