CHARLES WESLEY SAID, concerning the presence of Christ, "One moment leave me but alone, and my heart is turned to stone." Moment by moment we need the merits of the Blood to keep our hearts warm. God has promised, "A new spirit will I put within you; I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh; and I will give you a heart of flesh."
There is that initial introduction to Christ, which removes at once the frozen nature of the soul, that resulted from long rebellion against the will of God. But even that first fragrance of the new life will lose its scent, if we do not frequent ourselves to the same Fountain from which we first drank.
Sometimes the soul feels that others condition their faith or spiritual fervency or victorious life in Christ. But the adversities sum up to a trivial point when the soul has experienced a fresh thawing under the crimson stream. Our trouble is not from without, but from within-a cold heart!
Who is this woman that frequents herself so often in the events of the Savior’s life? One time she washes His feet with her tears and dries them with her hair. She watches when His silent and broken body is placed in the cold, borrowed tomb. On the morning of the resurrection she is the first to inquire, "Where have you taken my Lord?" It is none other than the warmhearted Mary!
She was endowed with the greatest of all gifts from God, a warm heart. How often she renewed her utter devotion to the Lord Jesus. The fidelity of her faith remains with us today. Will you not hide anew in the fresh wounds of Jesus, the source of heart warming? He will melt your heart into a stream of devotion. He will melt the heart of stone.
--Don. H. Polston
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