You can ignore the symptoms, try one more remedy, even rub essential oil on a broken bone—until the pain makes denial impossible. At Israel’s rock bottom, Ezekiel 36 lays God’s people on the physician’s table and names what stricter rules and harder effort cannot heal: a heart hardened against its Maker.
Do we just want to replace the most obviously broken parts of our life or are we willing to have God completely renew us?
Conventional wisdom leads to conventional failure, but Jesus calls us to set our sights heavenward and experience God’s salvation.
Nicodemus came to Jesus wanting to sample His take on God’s Law. Jesus calls both Nicodemus and us to something more.