{"id":40192,"date":"2026-05-04T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40192"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:13:11","slug":"26-0505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0505\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heart Like His"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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What if, for one day\u201424 hours\u2014Jesus were to become you? Imagine. Your heart gets the day off, and your life is led by the heart of Christ. His priorities govern your actions. His passions drive your decisions. His love directs your behavior.<\/p>\n

Would people notice a change?\u00a0And how would you feel? What effect would this have on your stress level? Would you still do what you had planned to do? Obligations. Appointments. Would anything change?<\/p>\n

God\u2019s plan for you is nothing short of a new heart. Ephesians 4:23-24 (NCV) says, \u201cBut you were taught to be made new in your hearts, to become a new person. That new person is made to be like God\u2014made to be truly good and holy<\/strong>.\u201d God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.<\/p>\n

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Read more\u00a0Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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What if, for one day\u201424 hours\u2014Jesus were to become you? Imagine. Your heart gets the day off, and your life is led by the heart of Christ. His priorities govern your actions. His passions drive your decisions. His love directs your behavior.<\/p>\n

Would people notice a change? And how would you feel? What effect would this have on your stress level? Would you still do what you had planned to do? Obligations. Appointments. Would anything change?<\/p>\n

God\u2019s plan for you is nothing short of a new heart. Ephesians 4:23-24 (NCV) says, \u201cBut you were taught to be made new in your hearts, to become a new person. That new person is made to be like God\u2014made to be truly good and holy.\u201d God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40195,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40192\/revisions\/40195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}