“FOLLOW YOUR HEART” is a pop culture creed that billions of people are following today. This is one of the greatest myths ever that is being perpetuated. Basically, it is a belief that your heart is a compass inside of you and it will direct you to your own “True North” if you just have the courage to follow it. This creed is far to simple and yet it tracts people often as a gospel they can embrace.

Have you ever paused for just a minute and considered that your heart has sociopathic tendencies? What is it that your heart is telling you this moment? DO NOT ANSWER THIS. Has your heart told you things that you would not dare to repeat? My heart usually thinks the best of me and worst of others. If my heart is constantly espousing my virtues and other’s errors, then it is not a leap for my heart to embrace some immoral or angry thought as being attractive.

The “follow your heart” creed is not founded in faith convictions. Jeremiah stated (17:9) that “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick; who can understand it?” Jesus Christ would  comment and say “Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander (Matthew 15:19). Is this how we establish leadership examples?

Our hearts were never designed to be followed. They were designed to be led! Our hearts were never designed to be gods in whom we believe, but rather our hearts were designed to believe in God! Christ is the truth, the way, the life (John 14:6).

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