Dear heart, who's in charge?

"Follow your heart."

"Chase your dreams."

"Just do what makes you happy." 

Really? Because following your heart is definitely not what the Scripture says to do. In fact, the Bible tells us in Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Number one, the scripture here tells us that our heart is deceitful and wicked. And not just a little bit wicked, but desperately so. Who wants to follow something that is so diluted and twisted? So warped and black. I don't trust anything that is said to be deceitful and desperately wicked!

Number two, the verse also says, "who can know it?" If we don't even know our hearts (which are wicked anyway), then how can we follow it?! And yet that is what this world does.....which explains a lot.

No, I am not going to lie, and say that I am innocent in this matter. Because following our hearts is something we all naturally try to do. And we need to stop. Because our deceitful little hearts are leading us into destruction.

So instead of letting your heart take the reins, guard your heart. Hold on to it.

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool,

but he who walks in wisdom

will be delivered.

Proverbs 28:26 

There is a way that seems right to a man,

but its end is the way to death.

Proverbs 14:12