Is it really possible to fall in love all over again?
Alzada lives in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. She’s a young woman who’s been married for seven years. She says that her husband is a good man, but she just didn’t feel that she loved him anymore. “I have become a very demanding, and as I see it now, an unloving person,” she shared.
But Alzada found a Christian radio broadcast that began to change everything she thought about herself and her marriage. She wrote, “Listening to your broadcast, I have been able to see myself in a different light. I thought that I must change [my husband]. I can see that he is exactly the man I need. All I need is to accept him and even enjoy his great company.”
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 NIV
“Wow,” Alzada continued. “You saved my life! I guess it is God Whom you talk about. It has been a few weeks since my new outlook on life. Amazingly, my husband is becoming a happy and most gracious man. I am really falling in love with him. Thank you. I [want to] look into the teaching of Jesus. It looks like there is real life in Jesus.”
What changed for Alzada wasn’t her husband. It was her. The Bible calls this being transformed. God promises He can do exactly that. He says, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26). That’s not self-improvement. That’s the transformation only God can perform on a surrendered heart. And when He does, everything around us can change too.
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