If a lobster loses its claw in a fight

(Charles Spurgeon)

"I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you.
 I will remove your heart of stone, and give you a heart of flesh!" Ezekiel 36:26

What a wonder it is, that a man could ever have a new heart!

You know that if a lobster loses its claw in a fight, it may grow a new claw-and that is thought to be quite marvelous.

It would be far more astonishing, if men could be able to grow new arms and new legs.

But who ever heard of a man who grew a new heart?

You may have seen a bough lopped off a tree, and you may have thought that perhaps the tree will sprout again and there will be a new limb. But who ever heard of a wooden fence post getting new sap and a new life?

Yet my Lord and Master, the crucified and exalted Savior-has given His people new hearts, and has and made new creations of them!

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ-he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17

Let us rejoice together in this regenerating Savior!