Don’t Follow Your Heart

If we want health, wealth, and wisdom, the world says, “follow your heart.” Advertisers often subliminally create a feeling deep within us to go after what we want, what warms our heart, what we deserve. I recently heard someone say, “I feel it in my heart.” But what does Scripture say about the condition of our heart?

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)

And so, if you cannot trust your own heart for guidance, what then? Following God’s heart is a much better option!

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT)

“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.” Psalm 25:4 (NIV)

Jesus offers a simple yet life-changing invitation to you today. He makes this plea knowing how messed up and how broken you are. He simply says, as He did to Matthew the despised and probably corrupt tax collector, “Follow me.” (Matthew 9:9)

To everyone, from His first followers (disciples) to you and me today, Jesus invites us, with all our dirty laundry, messes and all, to follow Him, and in doing so we begin to get cleaned up and put on a new, but not always easier, and better path!  

And this invitation is not just a one-time invitation. It is an invitation extended over and over again. Jesus first invites you into a personal relationship with Him and then He keeps inviting you to be refreshed and restored, reoriented and redirected, retooled and remanufactured, as you turn more and more from “following your heart” to following Him and His path.

Today and all throughout 2022, are you willing to take Jesus up on His offer?

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