What is the heart? What does it contain? Is it like a treasure chest filled with beauty and treasure of limitless value? Or is it a compass for moral and emotional guidance? If so, why would it need renovating?
Often we speak of our hearts as something much more than just a fleshy organ that pumps blood through a network of veins. A high priority is placed on "following our hearts" or "listening to your heart". We suggest that deep inside of us there is some source of great goodness that can guide us. Is that what truly lies within? It seems that human nature is bent towards evil and destruction with out some type of intervention.
The prophet Isaiah writes to us about this intervention and gives us a picture of the one who can preform the renovation of our heats. He tells us that it is only the God of the universe the one who has measured the heavens with his fingers, weighed the mountains on a scale, and the one who loves us more than anything else (Isa. 40:10-14, 25-26). The apostle Paul also affirms this idea that it is the one and only God of the universe that could change us. He goes on to explain that it is this transformation is the most brilliant and beautiful thing that could happen to us. in II Cor. 3:17-18 Paul explains that we are being transformed in the image of Christ and that transformation keeps happening and our lives grow more and more brilliant. This is all because of the work of Christ, not because of anything we have done. God is good and he desires that your life be the best it ever could be. That means loving him and having a heart renovated that begins to look more and more like Christ.
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