We want to follow our hearts, but our hearts give us mixed signals. Many people ignore the conflicting desires and simply follow their emotions. We can’t do that as believers.
As followers of Christ, we wrestle with the desires of our flesh and the desires of our spirit. We want to do what God wants us to do, but we also are drawn to do things we shouldn’t. Our hearts want both.
Jesus says in Matthew 22:37, “…You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Loving God with all of our heart doesn’t come naturally. It’s a decision that demands hard work.
Matthew 5:8 says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
Loving God and having a pure heart are choices we make, but they aren’t things we can do on our own. We need God’s help, because, as we saw in a previous One Minute Bible Blast, our hearts are deceitful and wicked (Jeremiah 17:9).
David understood this and cried out to God in Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (NIV)
Only when we can honestly say to God, “Your will be done,” and only then, will Psalm 37:4 become a reality in our lives: “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
