A New Heart
“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” (Ezekiel 36:26).
Your heart, if normal, is about the size of your doubled fist. The average weight of the heart of a man over 20, is 10.59 ounces, with a calculated increase of about 1 ounce for every 22 pounds of added weight to the body. The average heart beats at 72 beats a minute, about 2,500,000,000 times in a lifetime, or 103,680 times a day. Every day 9,000 quarts of blood are pumped through your heart. At top speed it can pump more than 16 quarts a minute.
Amazing! But God wants to give the sinner a new heart. Wonderful things are done to the human heart with surgery in this day of medical advancement, even to transplanting this vital organ, but the greatest heart transplant a person can have is the one that only God can perform because of the work of His Son at Calvary. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
