Heart Surgery - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2026

Our Daily Bread - Monday, June 9, 2025
by RBC Ministries

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Heart Surgery

Bible in a Year : 2 Chronicles 32-33, John 18:19-40

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.
Ezekiel 36:26

Today's Scripture & Insight : Ezekiel 36:22-28

Some years ago, after exchanging heated words, Carolyn and I resolved our conflict through compassion and love for each other. I confessed my wrongdoing, and she prayed for me, referencing Ezekiel 36:26: “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.” I sensed that God was conducting a form of spiritual heart surgery on me, taking away my fears and bitterness as He enfolded me in His love.

God delights for us to engage with the Scriptures as I did back then, but it’s important to note the passage’s original context. Ezekiel spoke on God’s behalf to His people with the promise that He would cleanse them. Why? “It is not for your sake . . . I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name” (v. 22). God would do His purifying work among His people so that all the nations would revere Him and know that He is God.

God works His purposes in our lives not only to help us flourish and grow, but so we would bring Him honour. Even as He gave the Israelites the promise of a new heart and a new spirit, so through the inward work of the Holy Spirit, God replaces our cold and hardened hearts with those that receive and share His love and life.

By: Amy Boucher Pye

Reflect & Pray
How have you experienced God’s ‘heart surgery’? How have others noticed the changes that He’s brought about in your life?

God of all life, thank You for changing me, for forming in me a new self that’s rooted in You. Please pour out Your love on me today.

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