GUARD YOUR HEART: Proverbs 4:20-23 (NKJV) 20 My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. The last part of these verses that I would like to look at, is verse 23 “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life”. The word keep, here, means to watch, to guard, to keep. God told Adam to “keep” the garden, and God is telling us to “keep”, guard, and watch our hearts. Our heart is where all life is, and God knows that if we don’t watch what gets into our hearts, we can let the enemy control us. Our heart is not the pump in our physical body, but the spirit man within us. That is the real us, the one that is born-again when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Peter said in, 1 Peter 2:2 (NKJV) “As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby”. When we are born again, our spirit is new, is alive unto God and now needs to be filled with His Word and protected from the junk in this world. That’s why it’s so important what we watch, and what we listen to, because our heart can be hurt by the junk in this world. Paul said in 1 Timothy 4:2 (NKJV) “…having their own conscience seared with a hot iron”. We don’t want that to happen. We want to stay soft and pliable before God. So today, watch what gets into your heart, and let the good things of God fill you. Confession: I do watch what gets into my heart. I make a decision not to watch or listen to things that would sear my conscience. I make a decision to grow into the person God wants me to be. Todays Bible Reading: Jeremiah 44:24-30 Jeremiah 45 Jeremiah 46 Jeremiah 47 2 Timothy 2:22-26 2 Timothy 3 Psalms 94:1-23 Proverbs 26:6-8
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:33:04 +0000
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