"College Doesn't Change Your Heart, It Reveals It"

Sammy Rhodes has a good article over at desiring God. In the "heart" of the article, he gets to the biblical truth that we all need to take note of:

Woody Allen once famously said that “the heart wants what it wants.” Thomas Chalmers would agree. The problem isn’t that we desire, it’s what we desire, and why. Our hearts are fickle things, and more than anything, that’s what college reveals. As Paul Tripp might put it, it’s not that college changes your heart as much as reveals it. It isn’t the secularity, or the immorality that is to be feared. According to Jesus, it’s the propensity of our hearts to either want the wrong things or try to anchor themselves in the wrong places. All the while, Jesus is simultaneously the one we’re running from and looking for.

 I encourage you to read the whole article.


 HT: Challies