Make Yourselves a New Heart and a New Spirit

Ezekiel 18:30-31 - Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct," declares the Lord GOD. "Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you. Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! 


I deserve to die for the sin I have committed.  My iniquity had tethered my soul on a one-way trip to eternal condemnation and punishment.  My heart was callused to every way but my own... and my spirit was pursuing the things of this world with an insatiable appetite for self-righteousness and immorality.  I needed a new heart and new spirit.  However, what I needed most was what I could not gain.  Yet, it was this wretched sinner that the Lord saw fit to purchase with His blood shed on my behalf.  He has given to me His Spirit and a new heart.  I shall live because of His grace.  I will live by His grace.