Lie #1: Follow Your Heart: Lies of the Enemy Series

So the first quote is from Oprah Winfrey.

She said, if it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

That is the lesson.

And that lesson alone will save you a whole lot of grease.

So how many of you in a moment of anger have ever lashed out at your siblings or your parents or even your friends? In that moment, it felt so good to get it off your chest and to tell them exactly what you thought.

But was it the right thing? No.

How about when somebody made you really upset or caused you a lot of pain, did you feel like forgiving them? Probably not.

Yet God tells us to forgive.

I remember being in college and I was going out to eat with the man who is now my husband.

And I was working at a different restaurant at the time.

So I thought I knew exactly how a restaurant should be run.

It was late at night, not many people in the restaurant, and my server was doing a pretty poor job.

And to make it worse, she was training somebody at the same time.

And I let her know exactly what I thought right in front of the girl she was training.

The server started to cry and it wasn't until that moment that I realized that I should have kept my emotions in check.

Too late for that.

I should not have followed my heart.

If I'd stopped to put myself in her shoes, I might have realized it was late at night.

Maybe she had a long day.

Maybe the restaurant was understaffed.

Maybe something hard was going on in her life and she was just trying to get through her shift.

I'm so thankful I learned from that day because that was the last time anything like that ever happened.

It was in that moment as a new Christian that I realized I can't treat people like that.

I cannot follow my heart or my emotions.

They're going to get me and other people hurt.