“Hear, my son, and be wise; and guide your heart in the way.”
—Proverbs 23:19
We are so often told to follow our heart, and it can be very tempting to do so. But the Lord warns us, “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”.
It is not following our heart that will lead us in the right way, we must be the ones to guide it.
“When our heart condemns us”, we need to remind it, “God is greater than our heart”.
When “anxiety in the heart weigh us down”, we ought to lead it to a “good word [that will] make it glad”.
When the “cares of our heart are many”, we would be wise to “delight our soul in His comfort”.
When the “heart is overwhelmed”, we must plea for the Lord to “lead it to the Rock that is higher than I”!
(Jeremiah 17:9, 1 John 3:20; Proverbs 12:25; Psalm 94:19; Psalm 61:2)
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