A heart transplant is a surgical procedure where the damaged or diseased heart of a person is replaced with a healthy heart from a donor. The donor is a person who has died and had previously agreed to donate his/her organs.

I imagine the feeling of a person waiting for a heart when he/she receives the news that a donor is available. I also imagine the happiness of this person’s relative when they find out that their loved one will receive the opportunity of saving his/her life.

On the other hand, I image the sadness of the relative of the donor when they are notified that their loved one has died, but maybe at the same time the satisfaction of knowing that the organs or their loved one could bring hope of life to other people.

I have not had the experience of a family member being the recipient or donor of a heart. I haven’t had that experience in the physical realm, but I have experienced it in the spiritual realm. My spiritual heart was damaged and without hope as a consequence of sin, taking my life in the path of spiritual death. Not that I was living an immoral life, for rejecting the lordship of Jesus is enough to turn me into a sinner (for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God – Romans 3:23).

What a joy to know that Jesus sacrificed his life, taking my place to save me from eternal life, and rose from the dead to give me a new heart that can suffer no death.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 6:23

I don’t know the reaction of the donor’s relatives when they meet a person that received the organs of their loved one, but I know that when God looks at a believer he doesn’t perceive a sick and sinful heart, but he sees us as he would his own son with a perfect heart.

Why be used to living with a diseased heart if Jesus offers a new one for eternal life?