• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Persecution
    • Recommended Ministries
    • Podcasts
    • What I’m Reading
  • Donate

Even If i Walk Alone

Instructing and encouraging you to live your life as a disciple of Jesus

advice

Bad Advice

October 12, 2023 by Tim Sherfy

There is a lot of bad advice out there. Some of the worst advice we can ever give to someone is to say, “Follow your heart.” This advice is rampant in self-help circles and the culture at large. To someone waffling between options or contemplating a career change, it sounds like wise counsel. But as is often the case, the wisdom of man is foolishness (1 Corinthians 3:18-20). Jesus never told people to follow their hearts. He told them to follow Him (John 8:12; John 12:26).

bad advice,discipleship,salvation,God's Kingdom,lordship,priorities,Kingdom of God

When you follow your heart, you will be listening to your carnal desires. God’s Word says the heart is more deceitful than anything else and incurable (Jeremiah 17:9). When we follow our heart, we are deceiving ourselves. We are playing ourselves for the fool. Only by following Jesus will we ever find the peace, rest, and fulfillment that our hearts desire.

[Read more…] about Bad Advice

Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: advice, Discipleship, God's Kingdom, I Corinthians, Jeremiah, John, Kingdom of God, lordship, Mark, priorities, Revelation, salvation

Primary Sidebar

  • mail
  • twitter
  • rss

Search this site:

Calendar of Posts

May 2025
S M T W T F S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Apr    

© 2009–2025 by Tim Sherfy