If all it took to make a heartfelt decision is mental reasoning and checklists, why did God give us a heart???
Following Jesus does not mean just burying your heart in order to be "submissive" and follow whomever says they're your leader. Like the lamb to the slaughter, you feel you cannot open your mouth and your scarred heart lies dormant.
No. God loves us too much to let us continue living as robots. He allows the storms, the violence in our hearts to erupt, to tear us painfully apart at the seams and show us who we really are, to show us our deepest need for a Saviour. Not just to bless our best church-clothes behavior, but a Savior who steps into our rotten filth and draws us lovingly, tenderly, ignoring the stench..drawing us to His heart. So we can live lives wide open for His glory and our peace.
"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." Ezekiel 36:26
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