Jesus First: The Readings — a road at first light with a few people walking it together

A new heartEzekiel 36:24-28Length: Short

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • What does God promise to do for his people in these verses?
    • What does God promise to put inside them, and what will it cause them to do?
  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • Where has your heart grown hard toward God or toward others?
  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • What will you ask God for this week about your heart, and what step of obedience will you take?
  4. Who will I tell?

    • Who feels they can never change? How could you share God's promise of a new heart with them?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

God, I cannot make my own heart soft again. Take away my heart of stone and give me a heart that wants you. Put your Spirit in me and move me to obey.