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Ezekiel 11: A Natural Heart

Thursday, November 21, 2024

What you are plotting I well know . . .

Yet we humans believe that we can keep our dark secrets hidden.

I will give them a new heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the stony heart from their bodies, and replace it with a natural heart, so that they will live according to my statutes, and observe and carry out my ordinances; thus they shall be my people and I shall be their God. 

Yet we humans believe that the world has something better to offer us: comfort, fame, a legacy to be remembered for generations.

But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their detestable abominations, I will bring down their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord God.

Yet we humans believe that we can keep our dark secrets hidden, and we can. For a time.

The Psalmist reminds us in 44:21: If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?

Yet we humans believe that we can keep our dark secrets hidden, and we can . . . for a time, but God knows what we are plotting . . . and God offers us the opportunity to be free of the darkness.  God offers us the newness of a natural heart.

We will want to open ourselves to this newness.

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For more on turning to God with a natural heart, visit: http://atriversedge.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/with-a-new-heart-and-a-new-spirit/