What complex machine has its own electrical power supply, can run non-stop for more than 70 years, pumps enough liquid to fill three oil tankers, yet is small enough to fit in your hand?

It's your heart.

The average human heart pumps the equivalent of 2,000 gallons of blood through 60 thousand miles of veins and arteries each day. Talk about productivity! But now and then things can go wrong. Diseases. Irregular heartbeats. Even heart attacks.

In ?Have a Heart,? Buddy and Zoe learned why Dion missed four months of school. No, he wasn't a secret agent, and he didn?t go to jail. He?d had a heart transplant. But the biggest surprise of all was that, suddenly, Dion wasn't being a bully anymore. Receiving a new heart led to a . . . change of heart.

In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the nation of Israel had been making bad choices. So the Lord told them, ?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 will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.? God wanted this merciful healing to affect Israel?s behavior. The nation received a new heart and a fresh opportunity to be what the Lord wanted them to be.

Have you experienced that kind of spiritual heart transplant? Did it make you want to think and act differently? Don?t wait for a close call like Dion?s to let God operate on your heart. If you haven?t already done so, ask God for a new heart right now.