"Follow your heart and your dreams will come true."
"Stop thinking so much and follow your heart."
"Do what you know in your heart is right."
"Follow Your Heart."
What a great thought…what a detrimental way of life.
Now, I know most people's intention behind this statement is to "be true to yourself," "do what you love," "find what makes you happy, and go for it!" The problem?
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?" Jeremiah 17:9
"When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord." Proverbs 19:3
My heart and your hearts are not trustworthy. The reason many of us feel like we are riding a roller coaster through life with no sense of security or steadiness in view is not because we failed to follow our hearts, but rather, because we choose to trust our foolish, sinful hearts above the thoughts and desires of our Creator.
