Yesterday, I quoted Ezekiel 36:26 "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 an heart of flesh."

This is such a super verse from the Old Testament.  It was a promise--to all of the people that lived back then--that hope was on the way.  That God was going to give us a better way to deal with our nature--that part of us that is always tempted to do wrong. 

He was not going to hold us to a list of ten commandments, but was going to change our nature so that we want to do what is right.  That's called regeneration.

God said that He was going to change our nature by putting His Spirit into our minds and bodies so that we can think better.  So that we can change our habit patterns.  So that we can actually keep growing in a God-direction.

So instead of getting discouraged with ourselves, we have hope.  

In Matthew 7:12, Jesus said it like this: "Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

That's it.  All of it.  He was telling the Jews that that was the entire content of the law.  And that was the point of a Messiah.  That was all you needed.  An indwelling Spirit. 

"...the glory of this mystery...which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."  My heart, Christ's home.