Have you ever noticed that “follow your heart” is a catchphrase that can be found in seemingly every chick-flick, inspirational movie, or every movie on the Lifetime Channel.  Whenever someone seems unsure of what advice to give someone, they immediately saying something along the lines of “Well, if you will just follow your heart, you will be just fine”. 

That phrase may make a great movie (or a sappy movie depending on which genre floats your boat), but it’s something that is completely contrary to how we are supposed to live our lives in following Jesus Christ.  I’m not supposed to let my heart decide my destiny and future for me, Jesus is the one who holds my future in His hands.  Let’s see what Proverbs 18:2 has to say:

“A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself”. 

When we follow our own reasoning and intellect, we are basically telling God that we don’t need or want His help.  Proverbs says that it is a fool that let’s his heart discover itself.  Jeremiah 17:9 says it this way:

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked…”

When we end up following our own hearts in our own natural wisdom, we can be easily deceived.  To be deceived means that at one point, the solution seemed logical to us but we later were disappointed to realize that we were incorrect. 

We have an opportunity to serve Somebody who isn’t bound by time or space.  Someone who is already standing in your future.  Somebody who had your entire life laid out in His mind while He gave His life for you.  With loving eyes, He’s telling us “Come, let’s reason together”.  

He desires to transform our hearts so that the seed of the Kingdom of God can be planted there.  When we hear something about the Kingdom of God and His plans, whether it be from our peers, a minister, or from the Lord Himself, we are given an opportunity.  Do we reason that word to death in our minds?  Or do we let it affect our hearts (the seat of our emotions)?  Mark 4:15 tells us that if we do not let the seed take root in our hearts that “Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sowed in our hearts”.

The reason that Satan is after the seeds of His word being sown into our hearts is that Ephesians 6:6 tells us that “servants of Christ do the will of God from their heart”. 

Let’s truly give Jesus Christ our hearts so that He can transform us and enable us to do His will.

Servant of a wicked cool God,

Matt Legere