Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

How can you give devotion to someone you do not know? People do it. Some might even tell you “I worship the God of my forefathers.” I might answer “Fine, when are you going to make him yours?”

We can pass down tradition. We can pass down religion. We can pass down pride. The issue here is not in what is passed down but what is picked up. You have to make it yours. It has to be personal.

Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Do you follow tradition or Christ?

Do you follow religion or Christ?

Do you follow the path of least resistance or Christ?

Do you follow your heart or Christ?

If you have given your heart to Christ, then yes follow your heart because that is devotion, true devotion.