The Only Hope For A Dying Heart

David Letterman has been one of the kings of late-night television for years.His offbeat sense of humor has given him a prime spot in America's entertainment constellation for a long time. But one day, suddenly everybody stopped laughing. David Letterman - whose family has a bad history when it comes to heart problems apparently - went in for some seemingly routine cardiac tests. Suddenly, this comic king was rushed into surgery by his doctor and given a multiple bypass operation on his heart. The doctor saw major blockage in David Letterman's heart - and he took radical action to save him.

We all have heart trouble - potentially terminal heart trouble, according to God. Even if you have perfect EKGs and cardiac test results, you may very well have the kind of spiritual heart trouble that can only be removed by the greatest Heart Specialist in the universe. Like David Letterman, if you don't allow the Surgeon to take radical action, your condition will be fatal. Forever.

God's Book, the Bible, says that our "heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure" (Jeremiah 17:9). Then God says, "I the Lord search the heart" (Jeremiah 17:10). Man, God knows all the darkness we've concealed from everyone else. His heart tests expose every lie you've ever told every adulterous thought or relationship all the anger, all the selfishness, all the prejudice, all the bitterness, everything you're ashamed of, and everything you wish you hadn't done.

It isn't that you don't want to change that you haven't tried to change - but there's darkness inside of each of us that it seems that nothing on earth can change. Nothing on earth. In fact, a parent of yours, a grandparent of yours, may have had the same kind of heart trouble--the same sins. Those sins probably hurt you - and now you're hurting people you love with those same sins.

Without radical action, we die spiritually from our heart trouble - die as in being separated from God and His love forever in hell. That's the penalty for our sin. But your hope is in this wonderful word for today from the Word of God in Ezekiel 36:26 - God says, "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. I will put My Spirit in you." God says He wants to give you a heart transplant - a whole new perspective on life, a whole new power to change, a whole new eternity. He wants to forgive and remove all the sin that has clogged your heart so long.

It took His Son Jesus dying for your sin to make this miracle possible. But if you will give yourself to Jesus Christ, trust Him to be your Savior from your sin, the miracle can begin in your heart.

If you want to begin this life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ, why don't you tell Him that right where you are? And I would love to send you the booklet I wrote about this relationship called "Yours For Life". Just let me know you want it.

See, religion can't do this - it can only make you look better on the outside. Jesus is ready to change you from the inside. There's no need to hurt like this anymore to go on flirting with eternal death. There is a Savior who loves you - and who paid the price so you could have a new beginning!

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Today's Daily Wisdom is written by Ron Hutchcraft, based on his popular radio broadcast,"A Word With You"."A WORD WITH YOU" daily devotionals are now available via e-mail. To subscribe send a blank email to:awordwithyou-subscribe@hutchcraft.com,or to request the "Yours for Life" booklet, fill out the form on this site:http://www.gospelcom.net/rhm/yours/yflorder.html. Ron Hutchcraft Ministries has been on-line with Gospelcom since February, 1996, providingpractical answers to real life issues. (c) 2000 Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc.PO Box 400, Harrison AR 72602