Don't Follow Your Heart Quotes

“In fact, if we do what our hearts tell us to do, we will pervert and impoverish every desire, every beauty, every person, every wonder, every joy. Our hearts want to consume these things for our own self-glory and self-indulgence. No, our hearts will not save us. We need to be saved from our hearts.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“We are not to lean on conclusions we deduce primarily from our perceptions. In this sense, our own understanding simply will not bear the full weight of reality. It was never intended to.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“Emotions aren't imperatives; they're not your boss. They're indicatives; they're reports. Thats why Paul wrote, " Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions; Roms 6:12”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“The truth is noone lies to us more than our own hearts. No one. If our hearts are compasses, they are Jack Sparrow compasses. They dont tell us the thruth; they just tell us want we want.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“Jesus’s discipline for you, however severe (and it is severe at times), is not God’s wrath against you. If you are tempted to believe that, don’t. It’s your unbelief or the Enemy talking to you. When Jesus became sin for you (2 Cor. 5:21), he removed all of sin’s condemnation from you (Rom. 8:1).
No, discipline is training. Training in what? Training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16). The unique training course that Jesus has designed for you (he designs a unique course for each disciple) has one great aim: to teach you to trust him in everything. That’s his goal for you. Jesus wants you to learn to trust in him in all things at all times. For the more you trust Jesus, the holier you become...
Jesus really does desire your comfort. He desires it more than you do. He so desires your ultimate comfort that he will make you very uncomfortable in order to give it to you.
He wants to give you the true comfort of learning to fear only God, so he will give you the discomfort of facing your false fears.
He wants to give you the true comfort of resting secure in the promises of God, so he will give you the discomfort of living with apparent uncertainty.
He wants to give you the true comfort of sharing his humility (Phil. 2:3–5), so he will give you the discomfort of opposing your pride.
He wants to give you the true comfort and joy of worshiping God alone, so he will take the painful whip of discipline into the temple of your heart to clear out the idolatrous merchants. And therefore your experience is this: “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it” (Heb. 12:11).”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“Jesus’s discipline for you, however severe (and it is severe at times), is not God’s wrath against you. If you are tempted to believe that, don’t. It’s your unbelief or the Enemy talking to you. When Jesus became sin for you (2 Cor. 5:21), he removed all of sin’s condemnation from you (Rom. 8:1).
No, discipline is training. Training in what? Training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16). The unique training course that Jesus has designed for you (he designs a unique course for each disciple) has one great aim: to teach you to trust him in everything. That’s his goal for you. Jesus wants you to learn to trust in him in all things at all times. For the more you trust Jesus, the holier you become.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“The life you have been given is an assignment from the Lord (1 Cor. 7:17). You don’t need to be someone else, and you don’t need to be somewhere else. You need to be who and where God wants you to be, because your assigned life is not just about you. It’s also about hundreds of others around you and hundreds of thousands of others who will come after you.
And since you are not wise or foreseeing enough to chart your own course for the sake of your present and future fruitfulness, you must follow Jesus by faith. He is your shepherd and will help you hear his voice so you can follow him in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake (John 10:27; Ps. 23:3).
You will change the world more than you know. And because of that, because your life will impact so many others, Jesus wants you to live prayerfully (Eph. 6:18), walk carefully (Eph. 5:15), and seek his kingdom first (Matt. 6:33). If you do, if you faithfully invest the “little” he has entrusted to you, no labor of yours in this life will be in vain (1 Cor. 15:58), and he will entrust you with more in the life to come (Matt. 25:21).”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“There is a pattern in the design of deprivation: deprivation draws out desire. Absence heightens desire. And the more heightened the desire, the greater its satisfaction will be. It is the mourning who will know the joy of comfort (Matt. 5:4). It is the hungry and thirsty who will be satisfied (Matt. 5:6). Longing makes us ask, emptiness makes us seek, silence makes us knock (Luke 11:9).
Deprivation is in the design of this age. We live mainly in the age of anticipation, not gratification. We live in the dim-mirror age, not the face-to-face age (1 Cor. 13:12). The paradox is that what satisfies us most in this age is not what we receive, but what we are promised. The chase is better than the catch in this age because the catch we’re designed to be satisfied with is in the age to come...
If desire is to earth what sight is to heaven, then God answers our prayer with more desire. It’s the desert that awakens and sustains desire. It’s the desert that dries up our infatuation with worldliness. And it’s the desert that draws us to the well of the world to come.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“There is a pattern in the design of deprivation: deprivation draws out desire. Absence heightens desire. And the more heightened the desire, the greater its satisfaction will be. It is the mourning who will know the joy of comfort (Matt. 5:4). It is the hungry and thirsty who will be satisfied (Matt. 5:6). Longing makes us ask, emptiness makes us seek, silence makes us knock (Luke 11:9).
Deprivation is in the design of this age. We live mainly in the age of anticipation, not gratification. We live in the dim-mirror age, not the face-to-face age (1 Cor. 13:12). The paradox is that what satisfies us most in this age is not what we receive, but what we are promised. The chase is better than the catch in this age because the catch we’re designed to be satisfied with is in the age to come...
If desire is to earth what sight is to heaven, then God answers our prayer with more desire. It’s the desert that awakens and sustains desire. It’s the desert that dries up our infatuation with worldliness. And it’s the
desert that draws us to the well of the world to come.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“There is a pattern in the design of deprivation: deprivation draws out desire. Absence heightens desire. And the more heightened the desire, the greater its satisfaction will be. It is the mourning who will know the joy of comfort (Matt. 5:4). It is the hungry and thirsty who will be satisfied (Matt. 5:6). Longing makes us ask, emptiness makes us seek, silence makes us knock (Luke 11:9).
Deprivation is in the design of this age. We live mainly in the age of anticipation, not gratification. We live in the dim-mirror age, not the face-to-face age (1 Cor. 13:12). The paradox is that what satisfies us most in this age is not what we receive, but what we are promised. The chase is better than the catch in this age because the catch we’re designed to be satisfied with is in the age to come.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“There is a pattern in the design of deprivation: deprivation draws out desire. Absence heightens desire. And the more heightened the desire, the greater its satisfaction will be. It is the mourning who will know the joy of comfort (Matt. 5:4). It is the hungry and thirsty who will be satisfied (Matt. 5:6). Longing makes us ask, emptiness makes us seek, silence makes us knock (Luke 11:9).
Deprivation is in the design of this age. We live mainly in the age of anticipation, not gratification. We live in the dim-mirror age, not the face-to-face age (1 Cor. 13:12). The paradox is that what satisfies us most in this age is not what we receive, but what we are promised. The chase is better than the catch in this age because the catch we’re designed to be satisfied with is in the age to come”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“There is a pattern in the design of deprivation: deprivation draws out desire. Absence heightens desire. And the more heightened the desire, the greater its satisfaction will be. It is the mourning who will know the joy of comfort (Matt. 5:4). It is the hungry and thirsty who will be satisfied (Matt. 5:6). Longing makes us ask, emptiness makes us seek, silence makes us knock (Luke 11:9).
Deprivation is in the design of this age. We live mainly in the age of anticipation, not gratification. We live in the dim-mirror age, not the face-to-face age (1 Cor. 13:12). The paradox is that what satisfies us most
in this age is not what we receive, but what we are promised. The chase is better than the catch in this age because the catch we’re designed to be satisfied with is in the age to come”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“If we ask God for greater, deeper love for him, what should we expect to receive? Answers that give us a greater awareness of our deep and pervasive sinful depravity, because those who are forgiven much, love
much, but those who are forgiven little, love little (Luke 7:47).”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways

“Most of the greatest gifts and deepest joys that God gives us come wrapped in painful packages.”
― Jon Bloom, Don't Follow Your Heart: God's Ways Are Not Your Ways