E-Book: Don't Follow Your Heart

THIS IS A BOOK to help you with heart problems. Because your biggest problems in life are heart problems. And they often occur because you begin to follow your heart’s direction rather than direct your heart. So this book is to help you “be wise, and direct your heart in the way” (Prov. 23:19).

God considered David a man after his own heart (1 Sam. 13:14). Stephen gave us insight into what God meant: “I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will” (Acts 13:22). What qualified David to be king was that he followed God’s heart. And when he did, he did very well.

But when David didn’t follow God’s heart, he did not do well. When David followed his own heart he was on his way to slaughter Nabal and his household, and only Abigail’s quick thinking and wise intervention saved David from this bloodguilt (1 Sam. 25:32–34). When David followed his own heart, he slept with Bathsheba, robbing her of her chastity and Uriah of his wife and life (2 Sam. 11), and brought devastating evil into his household (2 Samuel 12). When David followed his own heart, he took a census that God had said not to take and it resulted in seventy thousand deaths (1 Chronicles 21).

The Bible is full of examples that warn us not to follow our hearts. When Moses followed his heart, he killed an Egyptian (Ex. 2:12) and faithlessly struck the rock (Num. 20:10–12).