Following Your Heart?

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."     ~Jerimiah 17:9-10

"Follow your heart," says the world, but how many times have we done that and had it end well?  I can honestly say, it doesn't.  Following the heart leads to pain and wickedness down a path that seems bright at first, but just as the Alaskan Summer, the brightness comes to an end and it simply gets colder and darker until finally we are so deep in the trenches of darkness that there's only a glimmer of light here and there.  We get so caught up in the here and now that we don't always focus on the future.  Our eyes get caught by the glitz and glam that we see in the world that we forget the beauty in what is above our heads.

"The heart is deceitful above all things," and it will do it's best to keep our focus off of God, but thankfully there is a light that cannot be hid by the darkness.  The light that pierces the darkness of our hearts and exposes our ways.  This Light is our Savior Jesus Christ and though He knows everything we ever have and ever will do, He still loves us.  He wants us to walk in the light with Him and share His hopes and dreams for our lives.  He doesn't want us to blindly follow those before us in the darkness, but to walk on the true path to life everlasting with Him.

We will always reap what we have sown, but we don't have to go through it alone.  God loves us so much that, even though He knew how sinful we would be, He sent his ONLY begotten Son to die upon the cross for our disobedience to His law.  This gift was given freely so that we can walk with Him forever.  It is up to us to accept this gift humbly, knowing that there is nothing we can do as humans to earn our way into Heaven.  No good works will get us there as our works can never justify the rules we have broken.

If we never accept this gift, we will be eternally separated from God in a place that is forever burning, yet no one dies.  Where will you stand when you die?  In heaven with God or in Hell, separated from God for all eternity?