Our biggest issue is a heart issue. It doesn’t matter if you are talking about marriage, money or race. If your heart is not in the right place, nothing else really matters.
The problem is that all of us have a heart problem. The prophet Jeremiah said, “The heart is deceitful above al things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jer. 17:9-10). You know your heart has a problem when it keeps trying to get you to do the wrong thing. Like if you are in debt, but you go into H.H. Gregg and see a new TV and think, “I can’t keep watching that little 46” I have at home, when here’s a beautiful 60” on sale that I should have!” What is that? Friend, that’s a heart lying to you.
You can’t build a good life on a bad foundation, or raise a good harvest with bad seed. Also, we really don’t have a race problem in America, we have a heart problem. If our heart is right, then we will act right.
How do we get our heart right? “How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.” (Psalm 119:9-10)
So, stop telling people to follow their heart or listening to people telling you to follow yours. Instead guard your heart and don’t allow anything that can pollute it to gain access. Americans are crazy about pure water, food sources, and air, but think nothing of other crud entering their minds and hearts. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived (which your heart can easily do). Address the root of the problem by guarding your heart with God’s Word. Only God can make a perfect heart that leads to peace, happiness and joy.
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