My heating pad and I have become besties again as the new shot I get to beef up my immune system makes the bones my pelvis ache with its stimulation of white blood cell production. After a week of wrestling with the pad in its cold state to form it to fit comfortably on my lower back, it dawned on me that if I just stinkin’ let it warm up first, it becomes very malleable to my touch! Wonderfully pliable! No hassle! No pushback! Custom fit! (Perhaps women have been warming up men for more malleability in this manipulative way with hot food for centuries!) Female secrets aside, that is likely how You work in our lives too Lord! Warm our hearts to WANT to be pliable and responsive to You! No rigid compliance or cold-forced obedience. That’s probably why Your new covenant (Ezekiel.36:26) promised a new heart! “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My ways.” WOW! Love that! What warms me up to be more malleable to Your touch Jesus? Hmmm… reflecting on Your faithfulness! In the past with forgiveness and guidance. In the present with comfort and power. And in the future, with the fulfillment of all Your mind-blowing promises! Sooo… heat up this heart for more moldable malleability!