Our text for today is Ezekiel 18:25b-32
God doesn't mince words in this text! God is direct and to the point, "get a new heart and a new spirit," "Repent and live!"
We need a heart transplant! When it comes to sin we don't need minor surgery, cosmetic surgery or anything superficial. To deal with the depth and depravity of sin we need radical treatment to overcome our terminal illness. We need a new heart. We need a heart transplant!
Do you know anyone who has performed heart surgery on their own heart? I don't think so. Just as we need surgeons to perform heart surgery we need Jesus the great Surgeon who dies for us, giving us his own heart, enabling us to live.
This gift of a new heart comes to us daily. As we have died and been raised with Christ in the waters of baptism we are daily given a new heart.
In response to the great love of Christ may we daily come before Jesus and admit our sin and seek a new heart.
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