Michele Womble - A Heart That Lives

A Heart That Lives

song eight from After Six Days

A Heart That Lives …in order to learn to love and live this transformed life, I need a living heart, and there's only one way to get it - let Him remove the old and give the new. This transformation is painful, to do it I have to die to myself.

A Heart That Lives. (Mark 8:34-35, Ezek. 36:26). In order to learn to love and live this life of transformation, I need a new heart, a living one. And there's only one way to get it. Follow Him away from the things I think will fill me that are all empty without Him, and let HIm remove my old heart and give me a new one. The process is painful. To do it I have to die to myself. I wrote a Heart That Lives 18 Dec. 2004 while reading Mark 8. My journal entry has the day's date, the reference to the passage (Mark 8) at the top and then the words to this song. I don't remember if I just opened my Bible and journal and wrote it down, or if I thought about it awhile. At the end of it I wrote “…Father, I really don't know how to die to myself - not only do I not know how, but most of the timeI don't really want to, either…I've so much to learn. Help me to love today…(songs and poems about lofty thoughts don't mean much if I can't live them.)” The song references Mark 8:34-35 and also Ezek. 36:26.

A Heart That Lives Lyrics

Here's my cross

look at it hard

what do you see?

only wood.

And here's my heart

it's so red

full of blood

almost dead.

Two little things yet so much depends on them

Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him

Let HIm rip out your heart, give you a heart of flesh