One Heart

And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.  Ezekiel 11:19-20 NASB

We can have the purest of language and good behaviour and not know God. There is a difference between the old self and the new. We are not just the same person with a different coat and a new pair of boots. We are no longer who we were. We talk differently, we walk differently, we treat people differently. We understand the sacrifice on the cross and start living our lives with a different mindset. We walk as Jesus walked.

Not only that! But He is here among us! With us when we gather and with us when we are alone. 

It is when we really know God by regularly reading the Bible, by having a steady daily conversation of prayer with Him, and understand the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross that we start living new lives. It is through faith and through having a real, honest relationship with God that we begin to walk in a new way, leaving our old ways behind. 

Romans 6:5-11 NASB For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.  

There is no better time during in our modern-day culture to reflect upon the implications of Christ’s sacrifice at Calvary, and the ripple effects which have resulted, than now. If we look closely, we see the Kingdom of God moving, growing, pushing us closer to Jesus, and closer to those who need Him. 

We pray you embrace salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, may you begin to walk in His ways, as the person God intended you to be and start living and thinking in a completely new, godly way.