This is Max Lakato.

Suppose that for most of your life you've had a heart condition.

Your activities have been restricted.

But then comes the transplant.

You have a new heart.

Within you dwells a new power.

You might say, I can't climb stairs.

I'm too weak.

Does your choice negate the presence of a new heart? Dismiss the work of the

surgeon? No. It would suggest that you haven't learned to trust your new power. At some point,

you've got to try those stairs. The same is true in our walk with Christ. You have a new heart. You are not who you used to be.

As a result, you can do what you could not do. You can forgive. You can love. You can live.

Put your new heart to the test. You will climb the stairs, not by your strength, but by his.

This is Max Locato.