Absorbing God’s Word
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26
Applying God’s Word
Recently, Louise and I were reminiscing about our childhoods and I shared about how attached I was to my “Teddy Bear”. I took it everywhere with me. At some point, my parents started eliminating body parts from my raggedy old friend until all I had left was an ear. In time, even that disappeared.
God does the similar thing with me. He lovingly eliminates the things of this world that I shouldn’t still be clinging to. He really has given me a new heart and put a new spirit in me. He’s removed my heart of stone and replaced it with one filled with more compassion and love.
I didn’t like the way my “Teddy Bear” was eliminated, but I really appreciate the process God uses to eliminate those things in my life that separate me from Him.
Accounting of God’s Word
Am I allowing God to mold me and to eliminate the things that separate me from Him?