Ezek. 36:26-27
And I will give you a new heart with new and right desires, and I will
put a new spirit in you. I will take out
your stony heart of sin and give you a new, obedient heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so you will
obey my laws and do whatever I command.
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.
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