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READ: JEREMIAH 17:9-10; EZEKIEL 11:19-20; MATTHEW 15:19\n\n\n\nYou\u2019ve probably heard the phrase, \u201cJust follow your heart!\u201d or \u201cListen to your heart!\u201d These seem like cheerful, loving sentiments, don\u2019t they? The only problem is, apart from Jesus, our hearts are sinful, and they are definitely not worth following or listening to.\n\n\n\nIn Jeremiah 17:9, the human heart is described as \u201cdeceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.\u201d Later, Jesus said that it isn\u2019t what goes into a man that defiles him, but what comes out of a man (Matthew 15:11). And these are not the only verses in the Bible that refer to the heart! Ultimately, some of the meanest and most evil things in the world come out of the human heart. That means we all have a kind of heart trouble because our personalities come from the heart, the center of our being.\n\n\n\nSimilar to how cardiac surgeons can remove a failing physical heart and replace it with a healthier donor heart, our Lord can give us new hearts through the Holy Spirit. When we come to Him through faith, He gives us new life. We are born again and given a new nature\u2014a heart transplant (2 Corinthians 5:17). The Great Physician replaces our sinful and stony heart with a heart of flesh. He has been performing spiritual heart transplants for a long time, so no case is too complicated for Him! What good news! \u2022 Rosemarie Pagano\n\n\n\n\u2022 What surprised you in today\u2019s reading?\n\n\n\n\u2022 If you have questions about what it means to have a new heart through Jesus, check out our \u201cKnow Jesus\u201d page.\n\n\n\nThen I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 11:19 (NKJV)