"Keep
your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life."
Proverbs 4:23
The term
"follow your heart" is thrown around so loosely these days. Even the
motto for the popular girls doll American Girl is "Follow your inner
star". But should we really just follow our heart? Jesus talks about the
heart frequently throughout scripture. Each time He seems to remind us of one thing: our
heart is wicked. Matthew 15:19 "For out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness [lies],
blasphemies." Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful and desperately
wicked, who can know it?" With these descriptions of our heart, it sounds
like we should be extremely careful NOT to follow our hearts. Following your
heart can and most often will lead us where we didn't plan to go, keep us there
longer than we want to stay, and cost us a whole lot more than we want to pay.
The verse in Proverbs says to "keep our heart with all diligence".
Even though it may be easier to follow our hearts now than to seek God's will,
in the long run we will be very thankful if we choose to walk in His will and
not our own. The saying "You Only Live Once" or "YOLO" is
taken too lightly. Yes, you only live once, so please don't waste the precious
time the Lord has given you chasing after the world's passing pleasures.
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