"Follow your heart."
How can we adopt this 'truth' {especially in an empowered, self-driven culture} when God's Word, in direct opposition, gently spills Light all over it (over everything):
"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"
Jeremiah 17:9
The short answer is, we can't, and I believe time is short for the Christian who continues to try to attach contradictory badges of 'truth' and labels to himself (whether consciously or by sitting idle) while the Gospel fades and slips underwater in the process. Following Jesus, by default, means we will have to make the choice (many choices in fact) to deny ourselves, to reject truth that sounds right in exchange for God's life-giving, unchanging Truth. And if we're being honest... that is a sacrifice.
It amazes (and scares) me how often following our hearts simply leads ... to harm.
And we walk right into it, like a grave - blinded by pretty words and shafts of temporary light.
{A call now to - more than ever with truth so relative and hard to find - stay informed and awake.}
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
John 10:10
