Heart of Flesh

(Inspired by Ezekiel 36:26–27 “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”)

I have lived with a stone in my chest—
cold as an unlit altar,
heavy as yesterday’s vow.
It kept the songs from rising,
and the prayers from catching fire.

Then You came—
not with a hammer,
but with hands that knew beginnings.
You opened the ribbed door of my silence,
lifted the winter from its throne,
and placed within the vacancy
a heart that could be moved.

It woke like soil after rain,
like a field remembering spring.
Pulse met purpose;
breath learned Your name.

Your Spirit entered—
not a rumor but a river,
not a leash but a lifeline—
and the will I could not bend
leaned gladly toward Your light.

Now Your statutes are not fences
but footpaths through the morning;
Your judgments, not burdens,
but the music my steps keep time to.
What was command becomes desire;
what was duty, delight.

And if I falter,
You are wind in my branches,
sap in my veins,
the steadying hand that turns me
back to the narrow, living way.

I am no longer a quarry of grief,
but a garden under Your rain—
heart of flesh,
quickened to love what You love,
and to walk where You walk
until the last stone says amen.

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