This post is part of the Protect Me Series
There’s something about giving your heart to someone that we tend to hear a lot in media. You give your heart to someone you like or love, they turn around and do damage to it, and then you’re singing the blues. How about opening your heart to someone and letting them in?
Again it can be very risky and cause you to be more hurt than ever, so what do we do with these hearts of ours? I asked Adrienne E. Bell, Founder of Wifeability, to help shed some light on the misconception of giving your heart to someone.
What’s up with the misconception about giving our hearts away?
Society created this culture that giving our hearts to another person is the way to find or experiment with true love, but so many people are still hurting from relationships they were never designed to get involved with. It’s become a means for people to dismiss the God-factor from their lives and make gods out of other people. It’s unfortunate because God has given us everything, including His heart and we give it to others who aren’t equipped to handle the heart properly.
Men have told me before that I “have their heart,” what does that mean?
What should I do if I don’t give them my heart?
Again, our hearts do not belong to other people, they belong to God. We are to share the overflow of the Love of God with others, but God should be the only person in possession of your heart. A man has told me that before it was a means to get me to give my body to him. Don’t be confused! Proverbs 31:11 says “his heart doth safely trusts in her,” in other words, you can trust with the heart and not give your heart away. You can trust with your heart by loving and trust the God in a person but giving your heart away or taking it from God and giving it to another is not a requirement!
What does God and His word say about giving your heart?
There are several scriptures addressing matters of the heart but there’s one that I use to govern my own heart matters: “Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4). In other words, since God has my heart He will tell me what my desires should be. Some folks misinterpret that scripture to mean that you can sit and think of all of the things your heart desires and then God is to grant them since you “delight” in Him (going to church, praying, etc.) but true delight in God is letting Him dictate the matters of your heart and not the person you are dating or married to. [bctt tweet=”Your heart, if not properly nurtured, can tell you things that God never intended for you.” username=”bliss_bcs”] That’s why it’s important to keep your heart in God’s hand and not in the hands of others or even in your own hands.
Is it possible to give pieces of your heart away to people? Is that related to soul ties?
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