Our Hearts

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?"
I have heard this scripture quoted when the topic of listening to Jesus in your heart comes up. I am told that I should not trust what I hear in my heart because... and then I hear this verse. I know I am told this ususally in love because they do not want to see me go astray.
ON THE OTHER HAND, IT IS WRITTEN:
2 Cor. 5:17: "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature, the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." They, "HAVE" come. I take comfort in knowing that they have come. That sounds like "now" to me.

Ezekiel 11:19: "And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh."

Paul writes in Eph. 1:18 "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints."

I perk up when I hear people say, " I feel in my heart that...." "My heart is telling me." I think at times it is Jesus speaking to them and eventually to me. I would be smart to listen and test it with the Holy Spirit and my brothers and sisters in Jesus.

One of my goals is to listen to my heart today, the new heart that Jesus has given me.
May the eyes of our hearts be enlightened today.