How's Your Heart?

Max Lucado, one of my favorite authors, tells the story of a young family, whose 13 year old daughter, Taylor, was killed in a skiing accident. The family was devastated.......... Taylor's organs were donated and months later, a still grieving mother's only wish was to  know who received Taylor's heart. She was able to make contact with the recipient and arrange a visit.  Making the trip from Dallas to Arizona, Taylor's mother met the woman Taylor's heart had saved.  She asked if she might listen to Taylor's heart beating inside the woman.  The woman gladly said "Yes, you may."

As Taylor's mother listened to the strong heartbeat, tears fell.  She was not listening to the recipient's heart, but her beautiful daughter,  Taylor's heart. Yes, this heart now belonged to the woman but the heart beating inside her breast was that of a 13 year old girl, taken from this earth too soon.

As Believers, God has given us a new heart.......He has replaced our heart with His. We are new creatures.

^"And I will give you a new heart—I will give you new and right desires—and put a new spirit within you. I will take out your stony hearts of sin and give you new hearts of love.^" Ezekiel 36:26 The Living Bible

What about the heart that is beating inside of us? Is it a new heart placed there by God through grace and faith in Him? Do the things we say sound as though they come from God's heart?

  “Don’t you see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then out of the body altogether? But the things that come out of a man’s mouth come from his heart and mind, and it is they that really make a man unclean."  Matthew 15:17-18 J.B Phillips New Testament

Perhaps all of us need to check our hearts................