Deceitful Hearts

Jeremiah tells us : “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” NIV (Jeremiah 17:9)

How many times do we struggle with our hearts? There are things that clutter them—life’s hurts and pains; people’s opinions of us; and even our own thoughts about ourselves. Our hearts seem to be tossed whichever way the wind is blowing at the time.

God’s heart resides within those who are followers of Jesus. His heart is steady and true. When we attempt to “listen” to his heart we discover that these emotions and habits of our hearts can block out the voice of God’s heart within us. There is so much “”noise” in our hearts. We must learn how to tune it out so that we can tune into God’s heart.

God seeks to teach us all to listen. One day I sat on a hill and God spoke to my heart and said, “Listen.” I heard several different birds, a squirrel running though dry leaves, a cricket, a frog, a jet and some people talking. I had tuned out the “noise” of my heart and tuned into God’s world. God told me that I can do this anytime I decide to. I can also tune into his heart anytime. I can learn to tune out all the clutter of my heart and tune into God’s heart that is in the midst of the clutter.

We need to ask God to forgive us for “tuning” into people, life’s pains and our own concepts of us and forgetting that our hearts are deceitful. We must not take anything or anyone, including our selves, more seriously than Jesus!

I wonder what would happen if we took God seriously, tuned out the noise of our hearts and tuned into His?