Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flows issues of life.
- Proverbs 4:23
The heart is the source of every actions in life (good or bad). Whatsoever we set out to do are firstly proposed in our hearts. A heart that is filled with evil and wickedness will surely do bad things.
The wise author of the book of proverb advise us to guard our heart diligently. To guard your heart means to carefully screen and select what comes into the heart. A man that fails has already started failing from the heart. Guarding your hearts is to keep the heArt from vanity, the understanding from error, the will from perverseness, the conscience clear of guilt, the affections from being inordinate and set on evil objects, the thoughts from being employed on bad subjects; and the whole from falling into the hands of the enemy, or being the possession of Satan: great diligence had need be used in guarding the heart, since it is naturally so deceitful and treacherous; a strict eye is to be kept upon it; all the avenues to it to be watched, that nothing hurtful enters, or evil comes out;
How do we guard our heart?
We can guard our heart by prayer, hearing, reading, meditation; and, above all, by applying to Christ for his grace and Spirit to sanctify, preserve, and keep it.
For as the heart is either pure or corrupt, so is the whole course of man's life. Whatsoever and Whosoever control your heart control your life.
Selah!
It's a blessed morning, do have a great Wednesday.
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