The miracle of the New Covenant is the miracle of a new heart! Just try to tell your heart what to do. See how successful you are at manually, willfully redirecting the desires of your heart. After you have worn yourself out, you will discover that you cannot change your heart! You do not direct your heart, your heart directs you!
This is the fundamental, core problem with our sinful, fallen nature. It is a problem of the heart. We do not love God as sinners. We do not want to love God as sinners. We want to love ourselves! We want God to serve us instead of us serving God! There is nothing we can do or will do to change that course and direction. As fallen sinners, we will remain steady on the path of fallenness! The only hope we have is a change of heart!
This is the glory of New Covenant grace! God changes the heart! God’s saving work is so dramatic and new and fundamental that it is described as a heart transplant. When God pours His grace upon our sinful hearts, we are left with hearts that appear and function in absolutely brand new ways.
The new heart walks in the ways of God and loves it! It is not forced to obey God, it wants to obey God! The new heart finds its joy in servitude to God. The new heart changes the person. He now responds to God in faith and repentance. He now belongs to God! The radical change that conversion brings is as its core a change of heart, a heart transplant!
Ez 11:19-20 “And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My rules and obey them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.”
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