Only Follow Your Heart for a Good Reason



 Minds Deliberate & Hearts Motivate

    Older folks are pessimistic about the younger generation. They fear the inclination younger folks have toward fulfilling their heart more than anything else. Millennials and Gen-Z often make important life choices by uncritically pursuing their heart’s desires. Older folks instead follow the demands of society like their forbearers have. Capricious and contradictory, they believe the heart’s desires are best ignored—for sowing the wind reaps the whirlwind. Should young folks disregard their hearts and avoid heading an already insolent generation toward an utterly lamentable future?

    None are spared the vulnerabilities of a misplaced heart. Pursuing the desires of a (restless) heart imperils both genders in equal but unique ways. Women become wholly suggestible and misdirected, while men become self-interested and useless. Accordingly, a generation persuaded their calling in life is decided by the whims of the heart warrants our concern—until we entertain theology. When considering the Desires of God (as revealed in the person and Earthly ministry of Jesus Christ), we discover our hearts are the object. The traditional means of ignoring the heart and observing societal expectations surprisingly positions us furthest from a genuinely loving God (devoid of the need to please society) by atrophying the heart—defeating one’s true purpose.

    People ostensibly came to an understanding of themselves entirely determined by the expectations of their community. Pleasing one’s parents afforded a signal that one had succeeded in meeting those expectations. Millennials and Gen-Z on the other hand show little concern with the expectations others have of them. Though self-righteousness is the root of all sin, the very Love that God desires from each of us is expected to be free from all social restraints, threats, or pressures—sincerely from our heart, unfeigned. (Learning why God is worthy of our worship pleases Him.) Therefore, rather than pose a mere threat to society, the popularity of following one’s heart among the younger generations offers a potent opportunity for leading many hearts and minds toward the glorious knowledge of sacrificial Love and abounding Grace of God.

    If one doesn’t order their hearts desires in the Light of God’s Love, then they’re incapable of genuinely Loving God as He longs for us to Love Him. Reasons afford desires their order; they’re the logic of everyone’s decision making. Although young folks are ripe to desire God wholeheartedly, they’re alas unaware of the reasons for doing so. Reasons are what bind the means we have to the ends we seek, regardless of whether we’re aware of them or not. A life led by reasons one is oblivious to is a life lost, enslaved to circumstance and carnality. True freedom is deciding what one knows to be the right thing. To know the right thing, one must have the right reasons. If hearts were our compass, then which way would point us north?

    Millennials and Gen-Z were right about treating their heart as the wellspring of life. Yet, heartbreak brings them grief—blaming it on cases of unrequited love rather than having the wrong reasons for love. They don’t know in who they can rest their restless heart without ever getting let down or disappointed. Only an unfailing and everlasting Love can offer a satisfactory reason. Only He who created our capriciousness and contradictory hearts could conquer and appease human desire. We all must learn the reasons loving God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength is worthy of our time and energy. We must know a greater Love calls us. Hearts determine the ends, and reasons (minds) determine the means to those ends. Only when carried by the appropriate reasons do our hears find their rightful place under the supreme Love of God.

“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”

Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)

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