Guard Your Heart

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

- Proverbs 4:23, NIV

Guard your heart above all things believing that it first belongs to God and not to the world or its things. Know that in the natural your heart is the epicenter for all things...serving as the very lifeline to the rest of the body performing its task/purpose until the end even under the most austere and arduous conditions. Your heart is rarely fickle, rather operates according to the principles you abide in: garbage in, garbage out…good in, good out. Unfortunately because of its steadfast loyalty, the heart is often overlooked or taken for granted…rarely attended to until there is a problem. Likewise Christians often neglect the heart in regards to spiritual matters…never fully comprehending its impact on circulating the blood of Christ from head to toe…self to others…natural to spirit. Surely if they did, then they would guard their respective hearts with the utmost care believing until the end that God has not only stored up His grace within it, but touched it with His love that all might bear witness to His glory. This is why you cannot just simply give away, neglect, or forsake your heart, rather protect it all cost that the peace and gentleness of Christ may spring forth from it. Understand that what you cherish/treasure guides your heart [“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21, NKJV)], and now remember that garbage in equates to garbage out…a heart saturated in filth that eventually clogs and thwarts blood flow leading to eventual failure. So you have you reached the point of heart failure? If so then know that Christ’s Power Restores (CPR) and that His breath (Word) will resuscitate you and His blood will save you…all you have to do is give Him your heart. However, if you aren’t at the point of heart failure, then guard your heart and allow His Word and His Spirit to routinely maintain your heart that it may continue to operate according to its purpose. Today love the Lord with all your heart and give it all to Him…allowing nothing and no one take it away.

BE BLESSED!