…Yeah. That’s Exactly the Problem 🫠
“God knows my heart.”
Bruh. *long sigh*
Yeah He do.
And according to the Bible, that’s not the flex you think it is. 🙅🏾♀️
One thing about us Black women—we will say, “God knows my heart,” with our whole chest.
Right after cussing somebody out. Right after having premarital sex. Right after running away from accountability. Right after ignoring fifteen scriptures of conviction because they interrupted our plans.
“God knows my heart.”
Chiiiile! 😳
And He wrote an entire verse about it.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
— Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV)
Wait…
Read that again.
The heart is deceitful. 🫶🏾
Not your neighbor’s heart.
Not your ex’s heart.
Not your mama’s heart.
Your heart.
Above all things.
The very thing you keep telling everybody God knows… He already warned you not to trust.
We Have Elevated Feelings Above Scripture
We’ve turned feelings into prophets.
“I just be feeling some kinda way…”
“Because in my heart I knew…”
“I had to follow my heart on this one..”
“See the way my discernment is set up..”
“My spirit ain’t sitting right…”
Meanwhile, the Bible is sitting over there like…
“So… are we reading me today or are we just interviewing your emotions?” #QTNA
Your feelings can lie.
Your emotions can lie.
Your desires can lie.
Your trauma can lie.
Your pride can lie.
Your loneliness can lie.
Your flesh will preach a whole sermon if you hand it the microphone.
That’s why God never told us to follow our hearts.
👉🏾 He told us to obey Him. 👈🏾
“But God Knows My Intentions.”
Chile…
He knows your intentions and your excuses.
That’s why the very next verse says:
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
— Jeremiah 17:10 (KJV)
Notice something?
God doesn’t stop at your intentions.
He looks at your ways.
Your fruit.
Your actions.
Intentions don’t keep the commandments.
Intentions don’t repent.
Intentions don’t produce obedience.
Everybody has good intentions.
The question is…
What did you actually do?
God is all about that ACTION! ⭐️
Talk no more exceeding proudly, let no arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him ACTIONS ARE WEIGHED.
— 1 Samuel 2:3 (KJV)
The Heart Has Excellent Public Relations
Your heart’s PR team is on point.
It can justify almost anything.
“He wasn’t that bad.”
“I deserve to be happy.”
“It’s not that serious to God.”
“I’m only human.”
“I’ve been through a lot.”
“Why would God make it available, if I can’t have it.”
“We’re not living in the Bible days anymore.”
Translation?
“I’m trying to make disobedience sound reasonable and justify sin.”
So wise that you concoct a way to make your evil ways acceptable. #SMH
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are WISE TO DO EVIL, but to do good they have no knowledge.
— Jeremiah 4:22 (KJV)
The heart is so slick it’ll convince you you’re being led by God when you’re actually being led by Satan himself.
That’s deception.
This Is Why We Need The Bible
Imagine driving somewhere with a GPS that intentionally gives wrong directions.
Would you trust it?
No.
So why do we trust a heart that God Himself called deceitful?
The Word of God is the correction.
The Bible doesn’t ask you how you feel.
It tells you what’s true.
Sometimes truth hurts.
Good.
It’s supposed to.
For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
— Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)
Notice what discerns the heart.
Not your best friend.
Not your therapist.
Not your pastor’s opinion.
The Word. ⚔️
You think you’re reading the Bible…the whole time…the Bible is reading you!
That’s why some people avoid it.
Because you can hide behind motivational quotes and cute Instagram carousels.
Oh but that Bible!
It’s gone hem you up E’ERY TIME!
Love Isn’t Whatever Your Heart Says It Is
This one is going to sting a little.
People say:
“My heart is good.”
Okay.
Do you love God?
Most people immediately say yes.
The Bible responds:
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments…
— 1 John 5:3 (KJV)
And Jesus said:
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
— John 14:15 (KJV)
Then John comes back and throws the haymaker.
“He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar…”
— 1 John 2:4 (KJV)
See…
God doesn’t measure love by butterflies.
He measures it by obedience.
We’ve Been Defending the Wrong Thing
Instead of asking God to protect our hearts…
We should be asking Him to change them.
David understood this.
He didn’t say,
“Lord, You know my heart.”
He said:
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
— Psalm 51:10 (KJV)
David knew something we forgot.
Your heart isn’t something to brag about.
It’s something to surrender.
So… Stop Saying It
The next time you’re about to say,
“Well… God knows my heart…”
Pause.
Then remember…
He does.
That’s why He warned you about it.
Stop using your heart as evidence that you’re right.
Use the scriptures.
Because one of them has a perfect record.
The other one has been lying to you since Eden.
And if we’re being honest…
Your heart has gotten you into some situations your Bible would’ve kept you out of.
So maybe…
Just maybe…
It’s time to stop following your heart…
…and start following the God who created it. ❤️
