Follow your heart.
A popular saying, timely advice for those who seek their passion or people. As one begins the journey, it may lead to the most unexpected places and experiences. It can lead people to highs or lows. It hopes to swim in unchartered waters. It longs for adventure and pleasure. Jumps into the uncertainty of what’s ahead and makes us too happy to resist. We believe it’s freedom, we believe it’s life until it pulls off and loses its hold. The heart becomes distracted, unsettled, and dissatisfied.
Dissatisfaction tickles us, lures us, wants to fit us in a box. It makes us sad, frustrated, and unaccompanied. It’s a cycle of the chase. Breathing to be more, to want more until pulls off and loses its hold. Stuck in the realities of life, we carry dissatisfaction in a briefcase, we close it in the hidden places of our closets, but the secrecy doesn’t work. When we feel dissatisfied, we feel the act to chase, to crave, to be filled.
We don’t want to look at our lives with an empty space. With a hole. The heart rests but we know it won’t take long.
So where does our heart belong? When will it find its cornerstone? When does restlessness end?
The life-giver who sustains understands our hearts. He looks at it, examines it, reaches, and works in it. He profoundly made it at the seclusion of the womb. He never leaves it hanging but holds it securely in his hands. He cares for it and heals the wounds of its past and the fears of its future. He never tires in its pursuit but rejoices in its return. He amazes it with greater climbs and takes it to greater glory. He leaves it in awe. He wants it still. He wants it complete and satisfied.
Follow your heart.
If the heart leads us to self-indulgence and self-glory, is it worth following?
If the heart leads us to serve our own desires, is it worth following?
If the heart leads to our true north that only feels good but never does good, is it worth following?
Where do our hearts direct us? When will it move us to something worth living? When does restlessness end?
The life-giver longs to have our hearts taught and led. He wishes to take out the darkness in exchange for light. He desires to feed it with love and wisdom. He delights in restoring its ruins and promises new beginnings. He carries its burdens and comforts them with hope. He looks at it with good plans and patiently waits for its coming.
A surrendered heart.
Surrender may mean weakness and loss in the perspective of this world but not with the life-giver.
The life-giver. He wants your heart more than anything. He doesn’t desire perfection. He doesn’t desire temporary offerings. He doesn’t want your heart to be chained in reckless living. He wants to consume and free it. He wants to give it depth and faith. He wants to lead it in the way eternal. He wants to save it.
Will you come to give your heart a chance to be led? Will you open it to its true purpose?
A surrendered heart.
The heart wishes to love but hardly knows how. The heart filled with brokenness longs to be whole again.
It is designed to be led. It is designed to believe and surrender to its life-giver. It is designed to feel unconditional love from its maker.
Will you surrender? Will you give it to the one who knows how to fix it? Will you?
Follow or surrender?
