"Above all else, Guard your heart
for it is the well spring of life."
{Proverbs 4:23}
Your heart is the most important leadership tool you have.
It is not your experience, knowledge, or skills.
It is your heart that matters most of all.
The fragility of our heart should not be taken lightly.
(even though that sometimes is the case)
If your heart is the only connection to God, what kind of relationship will you have if your heart starts to fail?
If we allow all the unkind forces and spirits in the world pull us away from God, our heart becomes very unhealthy.
If we only feed our heart, junk from the World, our heart stops working the way God fully created it.
Just like our physical health, our spiritual health can fail if we don't take good care of it. When we let down our guard and forget the things that God tells us through the Bible and through prayer,
we do damage to our hearts and our relationships with God.
That is why we are told so many times, to faithfully be on guard for the protection of our hearts.
What is the reason we 'have' to Guard our hearts?!
Because your heart is extremely valuable!! We don’t guard worthless items do we?! (At least I don't)
I take my garbage to the street every Wednesday night.
It is picked up on Thursday morning.
It sits on the sidewalk for everyone to see all night,
completely unguarded.
Why?? Because it is worthless.
Not so at ALL with your heart!!
Your Heart is the essence of who you are.
It is your authentic self...
the core of your very being.
It is where all your dreams, your desires, and your passions come alive within you. It is that part of you that connects intimately with God and with other people.
Do we actually grasp the fact,
that our hearts are under constant attack...??
When Solomon says to guard your heart, he implies that you need to be living your life, in a 'protected zone' with God.
Many of us are so oblivious to the fact and reality of this constant warrior-battle.
We have an enemy who is bent on our destruction. He not only opposes God, but he opposes everything that is aligned with Him... including us.
Satan uses all kinds of weapons
to attack our hearts.
That is why if we are going to succeed as Followers of Christ
& survive as individuals.
We NEED to faithfully be guarding our hearts in His Word, and in daily prayer. It is more important than we can possibly imagine.
If we lose heart, we have lost everything.
So begin to be more on Guard for your heart. Dig deep into his word frequently, and be in a constant prayer mode!!
God will be with you, as you guard your heart
through those moments of Battle.
He will be guarding your heart,
just as you are!!
Until Next time,
~Kerrington
Wow, so true. I never really thought about it that much but now I realize how important it is to guard one's heart. I see people who open their hearts to unhealthy and destructive things and it makes me feel so lucky to be able to read the Bible and pray in order to have a better relationship with God who helps me guard my heart.
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