Love God with all your heart....

Did you know that hearts have cellular memories and brain-like hormones? Probably not, but research suggests as much. Research has also shown how the majority of heart transplant patients receive a whole new set of sensory responses, cravings, and habits.

Thankfully, neither I nor my loved ones have had to experience the thought of getting a new heart. At least not in the physical sense. In Ezekiel 36:26, though, God makes it pretty clear that I have experienced a heart transplant in a different sort of way. "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."

You see, when you decide to follow Christ, it is your heart that is changed. More often than not though, we tend to let our heart stay the same, and merely change our behavior.

God calls us to something different though. He calls us to a life where we receive a new heart-a heart that has new cravings and new habits. You see, it is important that our behavior changes to reflect God's love in us; but the reason that behavior changes should come from a new heart.

That is what loving God with all your heart is about. It's about noticing pain and suffering and doing something about it. Mark Batterson puts it this way-Loving God with all your heart means that your heart breaks for the things that break God's heart.