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God Still Carves Hearts

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**Verse 1** Like a stone monument—raised against the skies— A hardened heart—can weather many a year— Always tough—and void of mercy’s tear No compassion for others—just empty, dry eyes. Kindness pushed back—never a part— A stone wall of sorrow—built around— a wounded heart. **Chorus** Lord, do you still take—hardened hearts like mine? Do you still break chains—by Your power divine? Do you still carve old stone— to make something new? Lord—can my hardened heart— Still be changed by You? Help me trust—Your nail-scarred hands—so steady and true— So my heart—can feel love again—especially from you! **Verse 2** Lord—I know—it took so long—to get this way— Little choices—each wrong thought—made my heart harder each day. I shut out Your whisper—I turned away from Your call, Till anger and fear—they built a towering wall. **Chorus** Lord, do you still take—hardened hearts like mine? Do you still break chains—by Your power divine? Do you still carve old stone— to make something new? Lord—can my hardened heart— Still be changed by You? Help me trust—Your nail-scarred hands—so steady and true— So my heart—can feel love again—especially from you! **Verse 3** Then one still morning—the weight was too much, Just then—I heard a small voice—I felt Your touch. You spoke—and my hardened heart broke from within— and all the darkness fled, Life sprang anew— where my heart and spirit— once lay dead. **Chorus** Lord, do you still take—hardened hearts like mine? Do you still break chains—by Your power divine? Do you still carve old stone— to make something new? Lord—can my hardened heart— Still be changed by You? Help me trust—Your nail-scarred hands—so steady and true— So my heart—can feel love again—especially from you! **Bridge** My friend—If your heart— is locked tight— in total despair, You’ll sink to the bottom—in the shadows of sorrow—every weight you’ll surely bear. But right now—just listen—answer His tender call— And joy—sweet joy—will come rushing in—His love and forgiveness—like a holy waterfall! **Final Chorus Modulation** Lord, do you still take—hardened hearts like mine? Do you still break chains—by Your power divine? Do you still carve old stone— to make something new? Lord—can my hardened heart— Still be changed by You? Help me trust—Your nail-scarred hands—so steady and true— So my heart—can feel love again—especially from you! **Tag** Ohhhh—open your heart—for God’s perfect grace, He can give back all the years—for such an empty space. By His love and mercy—He will change each part— For God still carves and changes me— And—any old hardened heart!
Ministry Devotional

God Still Carves Hearts

Read together: Ezekiel 36:25–27; Hebrews 3:12–15; Exodus 34:1–7; 2 Corinthians 3:2–3; Ephesians 4:17–24

A heart does not usually turn to stone overnight. As this song says, it happens slowly: little choices, each wrong thought, made my heart harder each day. A wound that was never healed. A grudge that was never released. A whisper from God that was ignored once, then twice, then routinely. Over time, the walls rise, and the heart becomes like a stone monument—tough, dry-eyed, and closed to kindness.

If you recognize yourself in that description, the song's question may be your question too: Lord, can my hardened heart still be changed by You?

Scripture warns about this slow process. Read Hebrews 3:12–15. The writer urges believers to encourage one another daily, "so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness." Sin is deceitful precisely because it hardens gradually. We rarely notice until the walls are already high. That is why the writer adds, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts."

But the song's real message is hope. God still carves stone. Read Exodus 34:1–7. After Israel broke the covenant and Moses shattered the first tablets, God told him to cut two new stone tablets. God would write on them again. And as He passed by, the Lord proclaimed His own name: compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, forgiving iniquity. The God who carved His law into stone is also the God who gives second chances.

Yet God's deepest work is not on stone tablets. It is on human hearts. Read Ezekiel 36:25–27. "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you." Notice who does the work in that promise. Again and again, God says, "I will." The hardened heart cannot soften itself. God must do it.

Paul saw that promise fulfilled in Christ. Read 2 Corinthians 3:2–3. He told the believers in Corinth that they were a letter from Christ, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Through Jesus, God carves His love into the very place where the walls once stood.

The third verse of the song describes that moment: One still morning the weight was too much… You spoke, and my hardened heart broke from within. Sometimes a heart must break before it can be made new. That breaking is not cruelty. It is mercy.

The song's tag offers one more hope: He can give back all the years for such an empty space. We cannot promise that every lost opportunity will be restored in this life. But God is able to redeem wasted years, to bring good from long seasons of hardness, and to make the time that remains rich with His love. Read Ephesians 4:17–24. Paul calls believers to put off the old self, be renewed in the spirit of their minds, and put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

A moment to respond: Ask God to show you one "brick" in the wall around your heart—an unforgiven hurt, a habitual sin, a place where you stopped listening. Name it before Him. Then read Ezekiel 36:26 aloud as a prayer: "Lord, remove my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh."

Let's pray: Lord, You know how my heart grew hard, one choice at a time. I cannot soften it myself. Take my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh. Break every chain of anger and fear. Carve Your love into the place where walls once stood. Thank You that through Jesus, no heart is too hard for You to change. Amen.

Our desire at UnrelentingJesus is that you would believe God can still carve something new in you—no matter how long your heart has been hard.

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