Once Our Hearts Are Changed, Our Words Will Change:Ī wise man’s heart guides his mouth (Proverbs 16:23). The Surgical Tool Is God’s Word:įor the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart (Hebrews 4:12-13). I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws (Ezekiel 36:26-27). I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you I will remove from you your heart of stone. Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9) The Solution Is a Heart Transplant:Ĭreate in me a new heart, O God (Psalm 51:10). The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart (Luke 6:45).Įvery inclination of his heart is evil from childhood (Genesis 8:21). As you read what Scripture has to say, let’s remember that the Spirit lives in us and is at work transforming our hearts: The Source of Our Words:įor out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks (Matthew 12:34).īut the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man “unclean” (Matthew 15:18). But God has provided the cure: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). So words that at first sting us deeply don’t mean we’re without hope, only that we cannot cure ourselves. I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees” (Ezekiel 36:26-27). The Physician also promises, “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. But the Great Physician must tell us this hard truth so we can say, “Create in me a pure heart, O God” (Psalm 51:10).
#Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks full
It’s true that Scripture is full of disheartening diagnoses, including that the heart is “desperately sick” (ESV).