Heart Transplant

 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.

Ezek 36:26 (NIV)

The heart and attitude that God responds to is a heart of humility and lowliness.  We are so often filled up with ourselves, our own importance, seeking only to fulfill our own wants and needs.  There is no room for God in a heart like that.  The heart God is looking for is the submissive and lowly heart, empty of self, ready to be filled with God.  

How do we get to that place?  Sometimes the crushing difficulties of life bring us finally to a place of brokenness where we become willing to turn from our own ways and turn our lives completely over to God.  This is actually a good place to be for we finally become willing to open the door to the only one who can help us and change us. At the end of ourselves, we find the gateway into all the glories of God.

We cannot effect the change ourselves.  God is the great surgeon. Only he can do the transplant, taking out the old, hard and stony heart and giving us a soft, repentant, and submissive one.

Lord, we ask for a heart transplant.  Take out our old, hard hearts and replace them with new hearts, tender and responsive to you.

The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.

Psalms 51:17 (NLT)