"Follow your heart"
"The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
But I, the Lord , search all hearts
and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards,
according to what their actions deserve." (Jeremiah 17:9, 10 NLT)
Follow your heart. It's a phrase we have heard many times. A lot of people give this advice. Even Christian people. And on the surface, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. But in light of Jeremiah 17:9, it takes on new meaning.
"The heart is deceitfully wicked, who can know it?" Our hearts are deceitful. We don't just have the ability to be wicked but deceitfully so! Our actions come from our hearts & at the core of us is a deceitful heart. This is why Jesus didn't come to give us a moral facelift, he came to give us new hearts. He didn't come to make us better people, he came to make us new people.
Another truth we see from this verse is that we can't really even know our own hearts. We can deceive ourselves into believing lies, thinking they are the truth. We must keep this in mind when we are making decisions & living our lives.
It's not enough to just follow our hearts, we must follow our Lord! This passage shows us that it's not about us but about him. What's the solution for our wicked hearts that we ourselves can't even know? "The Lord who searches hearts & secret motives." Because we cannot know our hearts, we must depend on one who can. God knows what's in our hearts even down to our motives. He know our thoughts & the secret details of our lives.
This great truth points us to trust In him explicitly & not in ourselves. To trust his will not our experience. To trust his word not our desires alone. To trust his heart, not ours.
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