Monday after Quasi modo geniti Sunday
Posted on April 17, 2023 by under
Scripture: Ezekiel 36:22-27 (NKJV)
36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,” says the Lord God, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Devotion
Sinful man is conceived and born in sin. All people inherited from their first parents, Adam and Eve, a heart of stone. They are filled with the filthiness of sin. They profane the name of the Lord by their sinfulness. They are consumed with idolatry, false worship, and rejection of the One who created them. This is the condition into which we are all born. We have all sinned and fallen short of God’s grace.
But our Lord has a great love for His creation. He desires to save us from sin. He does this for His holy name’s sake. He sent His Son, the Lord Jesus, to take upon Himself our flesh, so that having fulfilled the Law that we broke He might pay the ransom price of our souls by His death on the tree of the holy cross. He has won for us forgiveness of sin and defeated death by His death and resurrection.
We have been baptized into His name. In this washing of regeneration we have been buried with Him in His death, so that just as He arose from the dead, we too now walk in newness of life, cleansed from sin. He has removed our heart of stone and given us a new heart; a heart of flesh, which by the work His Holy Ghost clings in faith to Him, so that we desire to walk in His statutes.
Prayer: Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we who have celebrated the solemnities of the Lord’s Resurrection, may, by the help of Thy grace, bring forth the fruits thereof in our life and conversation; through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
