When Jesus enters the soul of man, things
begin to happen. There are a lot of
different things that He does within us besides forgiving us of our sins. The first thing that He does is He gives us a
heart transplant.
The Lord gives us a new heart. He does this because the old heart, the heart
of sin, is hard as a rock and cannot accept the things of God. A heart full of sin cannot obey God. It cannot long for the things of God. It cannot hear God when He speaks. It has no desire for the things God
provides.
When we live in Christ, the way we were
gives way to a new life. We desire to
please God instead of ourselves. We
desire to hear from God so that we will know how to please Him and what we must
do in order to obey Him. We develop a
hunger for the Word of God because we know it is God’s voice speaking through
it. We desire to be with God so we seize
opportunities we have to have fellowship with Him.
You cannot have saving faith without
having a new heart. God transforms
us. We are constantly changing into a
holy people. Christ becomes the influencer
of all we do. We live for Him and follow
Him wherever He may lead us. There is an
insatiable longing in the heart of the redeemed for Jesus now and for all of
eternity.
When Christ lives in us, we cannot do
what we used to do, nor do we want to.
We cannot use the language we once did, nor can we think about sin in
the same way. With our new heart, all we
are changes; we become a people after God’s own heart.
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