"Listen to your heart" is one of the most overused pieces of advice in the world today. People believe that if you listen to your heart everything will be okay. Your life will be perfect as long as you listen to what your heart wants. Well sorry to tell you but people are wrong when they say that your heart always knows what is best for you and will always lead you to what is most beneficial in your life. Sometimes your heart wants what you know in your mind is not good for you. But the heart wants what it wants, right?
After being with someone who treated you poorly and the relationship ending, all of your friends remind you of how much better you are now that you're not with that person. They remind you of how awful that person treated you and how there is someone out there who is way better for you. While this may be true, it's not what you want to hear. You want to hear that your ex misses you. You want to hear your friends say to follow your heart, because your heart only wants the person you love.
When you study really hard for a test and you get it back only to see you failed, your heart breaks a little bit. You feel less of yourself for that grade, and this is a time when listening to your heart is the worst thing to do. I've been sitting in class when the professor hands back grades or pulling up D2L expecting to see an A or high B. I've been there when the grade does not reflect what I believed it should. And I've been there when I felt like a failure. I felt like I wasn't good enough or smart enough, but that wasn't it at all. Not everyone is good at everything and that's just something you learn as you get older, especially in college. But there is that one area that you will be amazing in and if you listen to your heart and mind telling you that you're a failure, you will never get the chance to succeed again.
Sometimes life is difficult. Whether someone you love passes away, you get into a fight with a friend, fail a test or go through a breakup, sometimes it feels as if life is always going to be that way. Definitely do not listen to your heart. God promises that he will not leave us where we are. Every pain and worry in our life will be taken care of no matter how difficult or huge the problem may seem. God always has a plan, and learning to trust him instead of listening to your heart telling you that it will always hurt is faith.
Listen to God when your heart is broken or even when you are happy. Listen to him because he knows what is meant for your life, while your heart does not. Your heart can lead you astray, but God will never abandon or forsake you.
