A Change of Heart

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10 NLT

How's your heart? Do you know? Are you aware of changes that need to take place - of old lifestyle patterns that need to be made new through Jesus? I heard a great teaching yesterday about the power of change. Let me share a few highlights. 

As a general rule of thumb, we don't like change. We like things the way we like them and we want them to stay that way. Change awakens the flesh - our sinful nature. It requires us to adapt. We get our back up about change - annoyed, angry - especially about those changes we didn't ask for. (CoVID, jobs, economy, masks...you get the picture) But change is essential to life. 

Think about it. How do you expose a scorpion? Move the rocks where they hide (change the landscape). They need to first be revealed so they can be killed. Any evil we hide in our hearts must also be revealed so it can be killed, too. Change brings about the revealing. Will we allow the Holy Spirit to be the executioner?

Prayer:

Father, 

          We need a change of heart. In Ezekiel 36:26, You declare, And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. Please do it swiftly, Father. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen