"I Am Following My Heart!?!"

Why Would We ... As A Committed-To-Christ Christians

Ever Utter The Words: 

"I Am Following My Heart!"  

When The Lord Of Life Calls Man's Heart Deceitful 

And, In Truth, Impossible To Know By Man!?! 

Beloved, 

We Really Need To Stop Following Popular Culture 

And 

The Self-Help No Help At All Gurus 

Who ... With Gay Abandon

Encourage People To Doubt The Word Of Almighty God 

To Gleefully Foray Into Fashionable Foolishness! 

There Was A Time When Your Parent Told You How To Live 

And

You Obeyed 

Because 

You Knew That They Loved You 

And 

Wanted What Was Best For You! 

Our Father In Heaven ... Our Parent Supreme

Has Warned Against Trusting Our Deceitful 

Aka Lying, Unholy, Proud, Desperately Wicked Heart 

Which We May Only Know The Right About 

Through His Saving Grace! 

Remember, Remember

Don't Ever Forget ...

Man's Heart Desires What Soothes The Senses 

And 

Not What Pleases Almighty God 

And 

Satisfies The Savior-Seeking Soul! 

It Takes Amazing Grace 

To Get Us To The Heights Of Christ's Surpassing Glory 

Where No Wicked, Unregenerate, Heart May Enter! 

Grace Is Available! 

Grab It! 

Peace!

Muscle Memory + PRAYER: I Give You, Lord, My Deceitful Heart!

I Had Lost My Way!

I Applied My Tongue To Cussing
AND
I Became A Curse Bird!

I Applied My Eye To Spying
AND
Became a Tatler:

Would You Like To Hear A Lil' Word?!

I Ran Around
Getting Into Other Men's Matter
Enjoying The Appellation
"Tha' Is De Expert!"
BUT
When The Tables Were Turned On Me
I Ran And Sat Down Righteously
In The Front Pew Of De People Church!

As Is To Be Expected ...

Good Behavior In Me
Di'n Long Last
For Soon
I Was In De Know
In Evahbody Bidness
AND SOON ENOUGH
There Was Bacchanal
For My Flighty Fiery Tongue
Through The Good Offices Of My Eye
Led To A Sold Out Show!

I Had Pledged To Reform!
By Cold Turkey, I Had Quit
BUT

Things In De People Church
Had Been Too Delicious
AND
Before Old Tom ... Cat
Could Lick He Split Ear
I Was In Foremost Lady Cora House
Hauled Up In She Easy Chair!

She Is Such A Dear!

Truth Be Told ...

Things Did Not Work Out
As I Assumed They Should
Because
Cora Was Not Called The Foremost Lady For Nothing
For
I Was Taught a Lesson
That I Will Never Forget
When She Turned The Rough-Table 'Pon Me:

• Do Unto Others
• Think Before You Speak
• Give And It Will Come Back To You Just Not In The Way You Expect 
• Plant Indian Corn: Guinea Corn You Will Not Reap, And
• Preach The Gospel But Not Through Lying Teeth
• What One Practices Is What One Performs
• When One Walks In Broken Shoes One Will Get Corns

Lady Cora Is An Old School Teacher

AND

Her Lecture Was ... Well

You Judge:

When One Practices Folly

Foolish Is What One Becomes
AND
Giving The Red R A G In Your Mouth Gossiping Muscles
Marks One As Just Plain Dumb!

Foolish Gossip Is Double Jeopardy!
Living As A Bone Carrier
Is Simply Foolhardy!
You've Got A Fat Tongue
AND

A Permanent Squint In Your Eye
AND

Your Heart Is Just Plain Rotten!
Don't You Know That Gossipers 

To Almighty God's Heaven Won't Fly?!

After That Oh, So, Calmly Delivered Tongue-Lashing

You Should Have Heard My 

PRAYER:

Dear Lord, 

I Retire From

And

Repent My Participation In

The Gossip Game

And

I Willingly Give To You

My Deceitful Heart

My Itchy Ears

My Lying Eyes

My Seared Conscience

My Fiery Tongue

And

Beseech You

In The Name Of The Holy Jesus

To Keep My Feet

On The Path Of Peace

And

Off Of Satan's Oiled Easy Street!

Help Me, Please

To Mind My Own Business

- The Business Of The Living God

And

Jesus Christ's Soon Return -

So That

In The Great Day Of Vengeance

- Saved As One Enduringly Faithful

By Your Now Available Grace -

I Shall Ascend To The Great Reward!

I Love You, Lord!

Remember Me!

AMEN.

That Deceitful Heart ...

Today I talked with Deceitful Heart!
We laughed!
We joked! - I was enamored
But then I thought of what
Jesus Wrote
And I Stepped Back
And Listened to Head Brother!

Head Brother Stood on Shoulders Proud
He wasn't Abrasive
He wasn't Loud
He simply Took his Simple Place
On Top of The Body though it was
Often in Disgrace!

Head Brother said: 

"Listen here, Young Love

You do not want Deceitful Heart

To get you Offside

He Will as he is Wont

To Lead you with Fanciful Twists and False Ties

Interpreted by his Vanity and Desires for Glory

Woven by Half Truths and White Lies!

A Half Truth is a Whole Lie

A White Lie is a Lie

And if you Follow his Leading, Love

Take it from The Head

You are Going To Cry!"

I Remember Ignoring Head Brother a Time or Two before
And Believe Me when I Tell you
That Cleanup Thereafter was a Serious Chore
So, with Warning in Place
Tongue Out of Cheek
Teeth Bared 
I Firmly said: 

"Deceitful Heart, Get Out Of My Face!"

"You've Lied!

You've Misled and Miscued!

You put me through Rings and Twisted Loops

And it's only because of Head Brother 

Through The Spirit that

I am still a Part of The Daisy Smelling Troop!"

"Thanks for Your Input, but 'No Thanks!'

I'll not be Heeding what you Say!

I'm  In Touch with My Jesus

And He is Leading Me 

For to Him I Daily Humbly Pray!"

Mankind Sinned 

Against 

ALMIGHTY GOD

so 

Don't Trust

The SINFUL HEART!

TRUST ALMIGHTY GOD

who 

MADE 

MAN!