Receiving the New Heart

I've had this idea in my head for a while and finally got around to making it a reality. I ended up getting this sort of.... vision or idea a few months back.

I've always called myself a Christian but it wasn't until this March during a youth converence I was serving at that I personally surrendered my life to Christ. Since then a lot has change... and there is a lot of things I still need to change, thus this picture. Not long after I was saved did I really start to realize and understand that the struggle against sin just gets harder and doesn't just instantly go away. Everyone always says how you get a brand new heart and are change after you come to Christ, which don't get me wrong it's true, but it doesn't exactly have the results some might expect. I for one always kind of invisioned that when I got a new heart and would be a new person that everything would completely and totally change. That all my old struggles and sins and things like that would just magically disappear and then the only things I would really have to worry about were random temptations that came around and fighting off just things like my flesh and trying to keep my emotions and attitude under control.  That's not how it works though... It's a process. Yes you get a new heart and yes you change but it's not an instant change, nor is it anywhere near perfect.

So one day when I was thinking about this... This picture came into my head. My thought was that getting a new heart isn't the instant new person process I had thought it was. It's not just you're given a new heart and boom you're a whole brand new person... No. my thought process was that when you receive a new heart from Christ, it's more like your old dark, sinful heart is shattered, broken, and torn out. (Not that it feels like a break up, or that you lost a loved one, I mean more in the visual sense.) Then you're left there, with all the dark little pieces. You can try and clean off those pieces and put them back in, but without God, it will just be the same old dark heart you once had. Instead with God leading and helping you, you take your heart piece by piece. It's kind of like God will pick up a piece, show you the truth of it's darkness so you can repent and ask for forgiveness. He then cleans it and washes it white as snow and then places the new piece of the heart within you, which you then work with him to keep clean. Then, He moves onto another piece. It's a slow, continuing process and one that will never end until Jesus returns and we live with Him in peace. 

Anyway, I think that's all for my testimony/rant... I'm glad I got to give Viera some more love. ;w; She hasn't gotten any in a long time... I gotta draw all of my characters more really. I love how the glass heart pieces came out too. This was my first time doing anything like this and I have to admit they look really good. Some of the glow effects look a little werid... but FireAlpaca isn't exactly the best program to use for that kind of stuff either, so I did what I could. I'm not too happy with the heart piece in what is supposed to be the hand of God, but oh well... Hopefully people will be able to realize what the heck it is. XD Speaking of that hand.... It still looks terrible but oh my gosh guys I drew a hand and it doesn't look like a total piece of junk. ;A; I kind of wish I would have known how to make the floor seem shiney and glossy and stuff, but oh well. I'm happy with how this all came out and I hope God uses it to bring Himself glory. ;u;




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