FAITH CAPSULE: You cannot afford to continue taking counsels and dictates from evil heart.
Jeremiah 7
The way forward is in the word of God and the way backward is in the world of man. Which way are you going? Are you going by the dictates of your heart or by the living word of the living God? The way of the world is the way which seems right to man not the way of God. Proverbs 14:12 makes us to realize that, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” The way that seems right to man comes from the dictates of the evil heart. There is no forward going in the way that seems right to man. The way that seems right is a wrong way; the way that seems right will always die a premature death.
As a child of the most high God, have you thought about the reason why you have been going backward instead of forward? It is a possibility that you have been following the dictates of your heart. God was speaking to Jeremiah about the disobedience of the Israelites in Jeremiah 7:21-24, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.” God called it evil heart. Whatever is evil is wicked.
The word of God is true and alive. Take to the word of God and it will see you through in the journey of life. You cannot afford to continue taking counsels and dictates from evil heart as mentioned by God. Evil heart or wicked heart only leads to a wrong way. The word God says the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) Why should a God fearing person want to keep going back to evil heart for counsels and dictates? It will lead to wrong way. Take all of your counsels to the Lord in prayer; He alone is the living God. Avoid the wrong way and take on to the right way. As you continue the journey of life, allow God to guide and lead you through.
Prayer for today: Ask God to instruct, lead and guide you in the journey of life. Ask for the grace not to fail, fall or falter.