Proverbs 16:9. Your heart is not always your best source for finding your passion. Many times your heart can lead you astray. Passion is a good feeling. It is where you find purpose, energy, and life. Our heart does not always lead us to good things.

Bible Summary. People that are self-centered are absorbed in themselves. They have no room in their heart for God. Self-centered people have no room for the true love of another person. A self-centered person glories in him or herself and not in God. Self-centered people are outside of God's plan. God desires for us to trust Him more than anything else in this world.

Bible Summary. Selfishness and love are complete opposites. Selfishness is solely focused on satisfying its own flesh. Love on the other hand is focused on pleasing others. Pride and selfishness go hand-in-hand. They are both self-centered. They are both in contention with God and with everyone around them. Selfishness is infectious.

Romans 1:31. From a Christian perspective, good values are valuing the things of God. A lack of good values is a sign of having unbelief in God. Godly values are spiritual things such as love, truth, righteousness, and goodness to name a few. When we love material things over the things of God, we are lacking in good values. We have unbelief in God.

Matthew 15:18. The Bible says that self-control starts with the heart. Matthew 15:18-20 says, "Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man...".

Genesis 11:6. Our imagination without the restraint of knowledge and wisdom is a dangerous thing. Our imagination opens our minds to all things and ideas: both good ideas and bad ideas. Bad ideas and thoughts can lead us to all types of sin and being disobedient to God. These sins can include adultery, envy, stealing, hating, and even killing to name a few.

Genesis 11:4. A free, democratic Government is good, but what about freedom and a Government that is without God?

Proverbs 29:15. It is natural for a mother’s love to be forgiving and not judging. At the same time a mother’s love should not just accept anything that a son or daughter does as OK. A mother must provide correction to her children when they are wrong. She still loves them, but she does have a responsibility to nurture and reproof a child.

Romans 1:32. The nature vs nurture debate is usually all about justifying someone’s bad behavior (sin). This type of argument operates on a bad premise that we are not accountable to God for our bad behavior. The nature position declares that a person was just born bad. This is not true because God did not make us to be bad - to sin and be disobedient to Him.

Romans 1:21. From a Christian perspective, the nature vs nurture debate is an example of useless imagination because both sides of the debate omit any knowledge of God. On one side of the debate, people will argue that people are born a certain way and they cannot change. On the other side of the debate, people will argue that a person's environment causes them to act a certain way.

2 Kings 17:4. We have to believe all of God's word not just some of it. What many of us do is selectively believe part of God's word. It is easy to believe that God is a god of love and that He is a provider. What is not easy to accept is that God is a righteous God. In His righteousness He cannot tolerate things that are not of Him.

Psalms 101:4. If you display selfish behavior with God or your neighbor, God will not put up with you for very long. Because God is a righteous God, He cannot be in the presence of the proud. The proud place more honor on themselves than God. God counts this type of person as wicked and He will not know him. Neither will God put up with a proud person that slanders his neighbor.

Proverbs 3:5. God's plan is for us to trust completely in Him for all of our needs. This is the Christian definition of trust. He desires us to continually acknowledge Him and stay in close fellowship in Him. When we go against His plan and trust solely in our own understanding (be self-centered), God considers our self-centered actions wicked.

Nehemiah 9:17. From God's perspective, He must be amazed at the choices we make because of our sin nature. This was the case with the Jews when Moses led them out bondage. The Jews soon after being led into the wilderness decided to rebel with the express purpose of returning to their bondage in Egypt.