Bible

 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. Ezekiel 36:26

Baldwin

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Blessing

Like altars during Holy Week, Lent is a time of stripping away, and one thing we remove is what the Bible calls “self righteousness”. This righteousness is, as Baldwin writes, is the pure heart we think we have. It is illusions of our own goodness based on works we deem as upright. God desires that we abandon these illusions in exchange for a new heart; a goodness that is not stone cold and dead within our arrogance. He offers us a warm and living righteousness from the Saviour Who has died and is risen.

May we be blessed with new hearts in exchange for our old ones this Lenten season.

Here is an uplifting song about exchange.