A New Heart.

     Almost 300 years ago, Charles Wesley penned this verse in his hymn "O for A Heart To Praise"

     A heart in every thought renewed, and full of love divine; perfect, and right, and pure, and good, a copy, Lord, of Thine. (1)

     The need of mankind is a new heart. Look around at all of the wickedness that runs rampant throughout the world we live in. As Jesus points out, it all springs out of the heart, a heart that is desperately wicked, beyond cure (Mark 7:20-23; Jeremiah 17:9).
     The promise of the new covenant is a divine heart transplant; the removal of the sin hardened old heart, exchanged for a new heart, soft and pliable, upon which the law of God has been written (Ezekiel 36:26-27; Jeremiah 24:7, 31:33; Hebrews 10:16-17).
     Are you weary of a life of bondage to sin? Are you sick of wanting to do right, but always doing what you know to be wrong (Romans 7:15)?
     Come to the cross of Christ, and lay down your burden of sin. Put your life into the Hands of Jesus, and follow Him. He will take out your sin sick heart, and give you a new heart renewed in His image (Col 3:10), but you must come to Him to put it on.

     (1) O For a Heart to Praise
            Charles Wesley 1742
          The Mennonite Hymnal
             copyright 1969
           Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa 15683
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