一颗新心
1967年12月，由南非的克里斯蒂安·巴纳德领导的一队医生进行了世界上第一例心脏移植手术。这个消息使全世界都感到兴奋。从那时起，无数的生命因着心脏移植手术而重获新生。
然而，圣经所谈论的心，一般不是指向全身输送血液的器官。几千年来，心一直都是我们灵魂、内核的象征，它是我们思想和情感的所在，是我们之所以被成为“我们”的那样东西。
直到今天，在日常谈话中，如果某个人很无情，我们还会说他们是“铁石心肠”或“心硬”。所以，当神透过先知以西结应许说：“我要赐给你一个新心，将新灵放在你们里面，又从你们的肉体中除掉石心，赐给你们肉心。我必将我的灵放在你们里面”时，我们很明白神在说什么。
这就是耶稣所说的重生，祂说：“人若不重生，就不能见神的国”（约 3:3）我们是藉着神的灵来接受重生和新生命的。以前，我们对神的石心是死的，但祂的灵一旦以新生命充满我们，我们就复活了，并且被赋予了一颗爱神爱人的新心。
圣灵啊，是祢将生命赐给没有生机的身体。求祢将生命的气息吹入我们，来住在我们里面，好使我们在基督里拥有新生和救恩。阿们。
以西结书 36:24-32
24 我必从各国收取你们，从列邦聚集你们，引导你们归回本地。
25 我必用清水洒在你们身上，你们就洁净了。我要洁净你们，使你们脱离一切的污秽，弃掉一切的偶像。
26 ‘我也要赐给你们一个新心，将新灵放在你们里面，又从你们的肉体中除掉石心，赐给你们肉心。
27 我必将我的灵放在你们里面，使你们顺从我的律例，谨守遵行我的典章。
28 你们必住在我所赐给你们列祖之地，你们要做我的子民，我要做你们的神。
29 我必救你们脱离一切的污秽，也必命五谷丰登，不使你们遭遇饥荒。
30 我必使树木多结果子，田地多出土产，好叫你们不再因饥荒受外邦人的讥诮。
31 那时，你们必追想你们的恶行和你们不善的作为，就因你们的罪孽和可憎的事厌恶自己。
32 ‘主耶和华说：你们要知道，我这样行不是为你们。以色列家啊，当为自己的行为抱愧蒙羞！
A New Heart
“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. And I will put my Spirit in you.” — Ezekiel 36:26-27
In December 1967, a team of doctors led by Christiaan Barnard of South Africa performed the world’s first human heart transplant. The news electrified people around the globe. Since then, countless lives have been saved by heart-transplant operations.
When the Bible talks about a person’s heart, though, it is usually not referring to the organ that pumps blood through the body. For thousands of years the heart has been a symbol of what we call our soul, the center of our being, the seat of our thoughts and emotions, what makes us “us.”
Still today, in everyday conversation, if someone is merciless, we may say they are “stony-hearted” or “hard-hearted.” So we know what God was saying when he promised his people, through the prophet Ezekiel, “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. And I will put my Spirit in you.”
This is the new birth Jesus spoke about when he said, “No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again” (John 3:3). We receive new birth, new life, through the Spirit of God. Previously our stony hearts were dead toward God, but when his Spirit fills us with new life, we are revived and given a new heart of love for God and all people.
Holy Spirit, you gave life to lifeless clay. Breathe life into us; come and live within us, that we may have new life and salvation in Christ. Amen.
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