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 WILL 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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