“I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26). I like new things. Not that I don’t appreciate the old, but new things do bring me earthly satisfaction. And God knows I am in need of a new heart. My sinful, hardened heart--which controls my thoughts, emotions, and actions - does not handle pain and suffering well. In Beth Moore’s study on Believing God, she says that with our new hearts we have new thinking, new reflections, new memory, new resolutions and determinations of will, and new emotions … [Read more...]
