Our Heart Speaks Good News

"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee." (Proverbs 23: 7)

The  heart of man is wicked:

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17: 9)

But God promised to give us a new heart:

"And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh." (Ezekiel 11: 19)

This "new spirit" is His Holy Spirit:

"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

"Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." (Galatians 4: 6-7)

This Spirit speaks Good News to us, because all our sins are forgiven, and as a result we receive the adoption of children.

This same Holy Spirit also convicts us of righteousness (John 16: 8, 11), the righteousness that we have become in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5: 21).

Yet even in Ezekiel's prophecy, this heart of "flesh" indicates a heart of "good news", for the same word "Basar" in Hebrew speaks of our own soft flesh, but also declaring Good Tidings, the Good News that all our sins are forgiven.

Your New heart speaks Good News, Beloved. Rejoice!