You must have heard of hoarders. They are people who, due to an emotional disorder, accumulate everything they find in their homes. If they see a flat tyre from a bicycle, they take it with them, thinking they will need it someday, for example. They accumulate with the thought of: “I may need it”. But, in fact, they don’t have to.

I remember that as a child, I was going to visit my grandparents’ house. And my grandfather was not a hoarder, but he had this attitude toward metal pieces. He had a piece of furniture, and inside the drawers, there was everything you could imagine about metal pieces (screws, nuts, washers). They were old things. And I asked my grandfather one day: “Why do you keep all this here?” And he answered me: “Because one day I may need it”.

Now, imagine the people who do this inside the heart. People who do this with bad feelings. If you think a hoarder at home needs help, you haven’t seen a hoarder of bad feelings in their hearts. Yes, this person is much sicker than a hoarder of material things.

And that’s why God says: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them” (Ezekiel 36:26-27)

Why has the heart turned into stone? Because of the bad feelings. How many have their hearts become stone because they have hoarded feelings of anger, envy, and trauma? How many people say: “I don’t want a relationship with anybody anymore. I don’t want to see so-and-so’s face anymore. I don’t want contact with this person anymore”? It’s a heart that has hardened due to so much suffering they went through.

When you install a sink, the top has a flat surface (marble, granite, metal). The top of the sink is always a smooth surface. Why? It’s to make it difficult for dirt to accumulate. This way, it is cleaner. You won’t find a rough sink surface because if something falls there, you won’t be able to clean it properly. So, in the same way, the new heart God gives is a heart with a smooth surface; things don’t stick to it. But the old heart is wrinkled; everything that falls sticks on it. People accumulate bad feelings. Usually, these people say: “Men (or women) are all the same. I’ll never open my mouth again. I will never trust anyone again.” You hear these phrases that originate in a hoarding heart with bad feelings.

Just as the hoarder’s house is full of junk, so is the person’s heart. The heart is full of pain, envy, and jealousy. So, the person speaks these words. Living with a hoarder with a heart filled with bad feelings is hard. Therefore, God says the only solution is to exchange the old heart for a new one. God puts a heart in the human being in which the person learns to get rid of things. You must empty the rubbish bin. Just get attached to what’s good.

Imagine yourself having a heart that only clings to what is good, and everything that gets in touch with it, doesn’t stick to it. You say, “I don’t want to know about that. Bad memories? Things from the past that keep hurting me? I don’t want to keep thinking about it.” You will not let in what is bad that gets in touch with your heart (which enters through the eyes, the ears, or memories). Go to the rubbish bin. Imagine if you had this kind of heart. Your life would be much lighter. A clean, airy house, with everything in place. You enter, breathe and feel peace just by entering that house. That’s how your emotional state will be. Bad things happen, but you’ve learned to throw everything that’s no good into the sea of forgetfulness.

If you have suffered with a hoarding heart and seek this promise of a new heart in God, He will give it to you, and you will become a new creature. You are leaving everything behind and looking forward. Free to fly and build a new life, like an eagle. Try it. You’ll never want to go back.

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