christian-devotional

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God. Once when Jesus_ disciples wondered about the salvation of a man who desired money more than God, he said to them, __ith man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God_ (Mark 10:27). Pursuing what we want is possible. It is easy. It is a pleasant kind of freedom. But the only freedom that lasts is pursuing what we want when we want what we ought. And it is devastating to discover we don__, and we can__.