God's divine indwelling in us
"I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies the stony hearts and giving you natural hearts. I will put my spirit within you so that you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep them." (Ezekiel 36:25-27) This prophetic oracle from Ezekiel encapsulates the divine promise of interior renewal and covenant restoration. Spoken to a people in exile, broken by their sins and scattered from the land of promise, this passage does not merely foretell national restoration—it penetrates to the heart of the human condition. Sin has rendered the people impure, idolatrous, and spiritually hardened. Yet God, in a radical act of mercy, promises not simply forgiveness, but transformation. The remedy is not external reform alone, but a deep inner re-creation by divine initiative. This passage anticipates the New Covenant...