Who can trust a heart?

"Follow your heart." "What's on your heart?" "What's God doing in your heart?" "The war between your heart and your head..." "Don't trust your heart!" "Guard your heart." "Invite Jesus into your heart."

It seems we've come to some confusion here.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV)

Above all else, guard your heart,

for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)

Maybe it's not so much that all hearts can't be trusted. Maybe it's that our heart, without His ways becoming our ways, can't be trusted. Maybe, just maybe, it's trading our heart in for His.

¹⁵ The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:

¹⁶ “This is the covenant I will make with them

after that time, says the Lord.

I will put my laws in their hearts,

and I will write them on their minds.”^[a]

¹⁷ Then he adds:

“Their sins and lawless acts

I will remember no more.”^[b]

¹⁸ And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.

¹⁹ Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, ²¹ and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. ²³ Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:15-23

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. ² Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. ³ For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is your^[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4