Day 172 – April 13, 2024: Ezekiel 11-15 and Psalm 61

We have to go back to the beginning of our reading for today to find a Scripture that I want to lift up because it is one that should be familiar to us. Look at Ezekiel 11:19-20 where Jeremiah promises that the day will come when God will replace our heart of stone with a heart of flesh. This isn’t going to happen now, it is a future promise, because right now the people of Israel are described as being evil and following after their own idols and desires. This is so much the case that God says that no amount of righteousness can save the nation. It is doomed to spend time in exile, and then the Lord will restore. I did notice that Ezekiel doesn’t just talk about a new heart, replacing the old heart, but also a new Spirit. It is this Spirit that as believers in Jesus Christ we confess as being God, the Holy Spirit. So we have that going for us.