You cannot separate the heart and the life. What the heart craves, the life will follow after. The heart flooded with the light of Jesus, walks after Jesus. The heart void of Christ walks after the cravings of the flesh. God, confronting His children, the people of Israel states, “Their heart continually walked after their idols” (Ezekiel 20:16). The inner man of the people of God, namely, the affections of their heart; the constitution of who they are, “continually” craved and “walked after” their heart-desire for forbidden things; sinful delicacies. Their heart was corrupt and they walked crooked paths.
