We mistakenly say, "Follow your heart," or "God knows my heart" or even "Give God your heart." However, the Bible says: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" ~Jeremiah 17
You
see, God is not interested in receiving the corrupt heart of any man.
Many do not even realize that by nature, we CANNOT do good, and that
there is no good in the human heart. Some may do what appears to be
"good", but those things are as FILTHY RAGS before God (Isaiah 64),
UNLESS those deeds are the fruit of the VINE (John 15), Who is Christ.
But
HERE is our hope, not that we reach for God, to GIVE anything or reveal
anything to Him, but that He sees things as they are, and reaches down
to humanity, to make us clean and make us new, by His own will, and for
His glory.
"Then WILL I
sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, WILL I cleanse you. A new heart
also WILL I GIVE you, and a new spirit WILL I put within you: and I WILL
take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I WLL give you an
heart of flesh. And I WILL put my spirit within you, and CAUSE you to
walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye
shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my
people, and I will be your God." ~Ezekiel 36
Those
outside of Christ are commanded to repent and believe the Gospel: That
Christ, fully God, and fully man paid for every sin of His people, so
that we could be covered and filled with HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS alone. Those
who DO NOT believe are under condemnation (John 3), BECAUSE their hearts
are exactly as they were when they were born, as the verse says,
DESPERATELY WICKED.
Christ is our ONLY HOPE to have a new heart. I
urge you, and God commands you: Repent (Acts 17) and believe! Those who
have been given a NEW heart WILL! |
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