There is a pervading message in the world right now. It has picked up in popularity over the last few years, it is a message of self gratification.

The message, follow your heart. Now it may seem new, but this ideology has been around since the days of Noah.

We read in Genesis 6:5 about the wicked state of man’s heart. These people did not only have evil in their heart, but acted upon it, often.

Jeremiah 7 and 16 again tells us that people were walking after the evil intentions of their hearts.

Many Christians use verses like this to talk about not being lead by the heart. As christians we need to be clear; and not christians only but everyone.

Ezekiel talks of God giving us a new heart, and in Hebrews 9:10 “I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts.”

To the believing repented soul, whose heart has been softened, made new and renewed, and is perfectly in line with God, then the actions they take will reflect that.

For a believer, our mind and heart will move in like with the will of God as we become less by the Spirit and not the flesh.

For one in whom their heart is still hard, for the internees mind who seeks to do their own will and not that of God, the message to follow their heart is dangerous, self pleasing, self satisfying and dangerous to the soul.

Again to drive this message home, psalm 37:4 “delight yourself in the Lord, and he shall give you the desires of the heart.”

For those who delight in the Lord, their desire moves in line with the will of God, and we become partakers in heavenly duty, our desire becomes the same as what God desires.

We begin to seek to please God, not self. There are two ends for a man, to follow the self pleasing heart whose end is death, or follow a renewed born again heart whose desire is to please God.

It is by grace, extended to us by the love and power of God, manifested in Christ, that we can come to love God, and by loving God we can come to a place of renewed and empowered love with a clean heart.