Follow Your Heart???

Proverbs 28:26-He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

You have heard people say "follow your heart".  That is the worst advice that you can give someone.  You are thinking "wait a minutes, we hear that all the time in the movies and in life.  How can it be such bad advice?"  Well let's look at what the Bible has to say.  The Bible describes the heart as being deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9).  Instead of telling people to follow their heart we should be encouraging them to follow God.  Don't trust your heart or your emotions, trust God.  Stop and think about it, your emotions change, they come and go, but God will always remain faithful!  He will never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).  He will never change.  Why would you base important decisions, like maybe who to marry or start a relationship with, based on what your heart tells you?  Satan will use emotions to distract us or deceive us from following after God and His will for our lives.  If you are following your heart then you may be playing right into that and that is dangerous territory.  But if you follow after God then you will never go wrong.  Put Him first, follow after Him, and allow Him to guide you.  Who or what are you following after today?  What do you use to base your decisions on?

Always in my prayers,
Jessica