The crazy Old Testament prophet Ezekiel explains it well. He wrote in Ezekiel 36:26 that God had said to him, “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.” It didn’t feel like a removal. Removal is far too pleasant a word. My heart was ripped out. When my own heart started to feel bitter and judgy and hard, and when I had articulated to as fine a point as possible why I was justified in such steeliness, God finally said, enough.
