I need a heart transplant.
We all know that the Great Commandment is “Love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and
with all your strength” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” I have lived long
enough to know that I often fall well short of this commandment. My many failed
attempts to live it out has convinced me that there is no way I can obey this
commandment fully with the heart I have. But I have also, thankfully, come to
understand that there is a way that I can come to love like that.
When a heart is too sick or too weak to function as it
should, a heart transplant may be the only possible solution. To love as the
Word of God commands me to love, I need a new heart. The “Good News” is that
God is willing to provide that new heart and to perform the surgery!
And
I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will
remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. –
Ezekiel 36.26
There is one caveat though.
There is a price to pay. I have to give God my old defective heart in exchange
for the new one.
My son, give me your
heart
and let your eyes delight in my ways. – Proverbs 23,26
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