Children are raised with the encouragement to: “Follow your heart.” But this advice ignores the warning: “O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps” (Jeremiah 10:23). God rejected people who “walked in the imagination of his evil heart " (Jeremiah 11:8). After punishing them, God said: "they shall walk no more after the stubbornness of their evil heart” (Jeremiah 3:17). None of us knows, completely from our own hearts, how to do good and not evil. The solution? “Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You!” (Psalm 119:11). Children should rather pray: “Direct my steps by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me” (Psalm 119:133).
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