Revelation #49: Are we to follow our heart?

hiddenbattles August 5, 2024

Question: Are we to follow our heart and mind?

A) Yes, it is within our hearts that we will find the truth to our purpose.

B) Yes, all the answers lie within our hearts and minds for the one who takes the time to look deeply within oneself.

C) No, the heart is deceitful above all things, perverse, corrupt, and severely sick apart from God alone.

Answer: C) No, the heart is deceitful above all things, perverse, corrupt, and severely sick apart from God alone.

Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord with all your heart
And do not rely on your own insight or understanding. ~Proverbs 3:5 (AMP)

And Jesus replied to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. ~Matthew 22:37-38 (AMP)

“Blessed [with spiritual security] is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord. ~Jeremiah 17:7 (AMP)

Whenever our hearts in [tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For we are in God’s hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him]. ~1 John 3:20 (AMPC)

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]?
O Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be put to shame. They who depart from You and me [Your prophet] shall [disappear like] writing upon the ground, because they have forsaken the Lord, the Fountain of living waters. ~Jeremiah 17:9,13

For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do. ~Galations 5:17 (AMPC)

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