“Guard Your Heart!”

“Guard Your Heart”



Today's Verse:
 "Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life." - Proverbs 4:23 (HCSB)

Everything flows out of our heart. Our speech, our thinking, our actions are all a result of our heart. If we allow our heart to hold on to hurt, bitterness, and resentment, we will soon find that the rest of our life follows that way.

When you lose heart, you lose everything. This is why God tells us to guard our heart. We need to be careful with what we allow into our heart, and what we allow to stay in our heart. Every so often, we need to do a spring-cleaning in our heart. We need to throw out some things we have allowed to stay far too long.

Our eyes and ears are pathways to the heart. Most of us need to create guard posts for our eyes and ears. There are some things, which we cannot allow to enter our heart.

A stream where people dump garbage will soon flow with filth, disease, and pollution. The same is true when we don’t control what comes into our heart. If we allow filth, hatred, bitterness, and anger to remain in our heart, we will soon find those same things flowing out of our life.

Today, pray and guard your heart. Do not allow things in, or things to remain that will pollute your heart. Ask God to purify your heart and to help you set up guard posts for your eyes, ears, and emotions.

Sample Prayer:

Father, today help me to guard my heart. Help me to remove the things I has allowed to stay like bitterness, resentment, and fear. Give me the strength to make a renewed effort in refusing to accept anything in my heart that would pollute it. Help me to keep my heart completely Yours.
In Jesus Name,
Amen