“And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:” - Ezekiel 11v19
In spite of their sin God kept calling His people back to Him. As He called them back, they had two choices.
On one hand they could hold on to their sin and not repent, going on their way. If they did that God said that they would suffer all the consequences of their actions. “ I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD,” God said. Those who will not repent will get what they deserve.
Yet, God still gives hope to those who will repent and put away their abominations do have hope. God said that He would give them a heart of flesh, a tender heart that is able to serve Him in place of a cold, hard, stony heart.
When we get saved God does the same thing for us. He replaces our lost, cold, stony heart with a new heart that has the capacity to serve Him in love. All we do for Him is only because of the soft new heart He has given us.
By God’s grace may we respond to God with the heart of flesh instead of the heart of stone.
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