From the moment that we exit the womb we’re on a journey…a journey to discover who we were configured to be. Or who we will choose to become. A journey that is first motivated by the aspirations of the sole; having only two perspectives. Happy and sad; content and discontent.

In the beginning these are all we know. The self serving ways of our emotions. What we like and what we dislike. And the elevation of darkness or light are rapidly put into the motion of motivating the heart as to which path it will embrace.

And once elevated, the heart will dictate over every aspiration of the sole, because that’s where it gained its empowerment.

The heart of stone spoken of in Ezekiel 36:26 is now born

Always embracing the endeavors of self, it is able to disavow and disregard any and all levels of truth that contradicts its own insight. This is the natural path of man.

This is why Psalms 51:5 told us 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. But the indwelling of His Holy Spirit empowers us to rise above the works of the flesh. Provided that we choose the pathway out of the endeavors of the self serving heart.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 says

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?