In Ezekiel, twice God mentions that He will gather a people and give them a heart of flesh and remove their hearts of stone. Now at first that doesn't seem like much of an improvement to me, I mean, a heart of flesh? I already have one of those, don't I? Couldn't He give me an upgrade to like a heart of titanium or something?
Apparently to God, for some reason a heart of flesh, a heart that is vulnerable to its surroundings is of greater value than a heart which cannot be affected by God or people.
After our recent trip from Swansea one of the members from our team called and left me a message on my phone, they were obviously distraught and when I returned their call, they were barley able to hold back the tears and emotion. I wondered what had happened and of course imagined the worst, but as they began to tell me what was going on I recognized what was taking place, because it had happened to me before as well. They had been wounded by God
Now when I say wounded by God most of the time we think it a bad thing, like getting dumped by your girlfriend (or boyfriend), but being wounded by God is completely different in that the wounds that He inflicts makes you more in love, not less, makes you want to be more vulnerable, not less. What in fact is happening is that the wounding is breaking away the stone, the selfishness, the lack of caring and in turn it is giving you a heart of flesh and it is only in contrast that you see how before it was
a stone. My friend had come to realized after giving of themselves in effort, time and emotion how much they truly cared and being away from the people as well as that concentrated work of God broke their heart. That is the trouble with a heart of flesh; it can be broken, wounded and ruined,
...ruined by a love that is more, not less.
...ruined by a love that is more, not less.
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