“Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.” (Proverbs 4:23)
What does it mean to “guard your heart?” When someone is boxing he or she is constantly on guard. Their intentions are to not allow the opponents gloves to come through and land a punch. Because if a punch is landed it causes damage and can eventually destruct the fighter.
So when the Bible tells us to “guard our hearts” we are to have our spiritual gloves up. Why? We don’t want the enemy getting through to our hearts! Why? It is the wellspring of life! If we allow sin in our hearts it embitters the water. What kind of sin embitters the water? Jesus tells us in the gospel of Matthew.
"Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated? But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man." (Matthew 15:17-20)
None of us are absent from things that can and will contaminant our hearts if we aren’t constantly on guard by the Holy Spirit. So keep your “gloves” up and be watchful!
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Beck your blogs are as encouraging and inspirational as ever. I wanted to drop by and say Hello...it has been awhile.
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