Proverbs 4:23
“Above all else,
guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
“Our heart – our feelings
of love and desire – dictates to a great extent how we live because we always
find time to do what we enjoy. Solomon
tells us to guard our heart above all else, making sure we concentrate
on those desires that will keep us on the right path.” Bible Commentary
The Bible exhorts us to guard our heart. The word guard is an action word and means to
take a defensive position. It is what a boxer does when he uses his hands to
guard his chin from an opponent’s damaging blows. The boxer knows that a well placed punch to
his chin will knock him out.
God knows that if we don’t guard our hearts, our opponent,
the enemy, will work his way through to our heart. A good boxer actively looks at the opponent’s
hands and quickly adjusts to the blows that are coming his way. However, our heart is deceitful and does not always
allow us to see the punches that are coming our way. Consequently, the blows to our heart when we are
not actively guarding it are extremely damaging to our life.
Life is extremely challenging as it is.
A boxer
knows that when he gets in that “ring”, he will not leave without getting
bruised. However, if he guarded himself properly, he will be standing at the
end of the twelve rounds.
Let us
actively guard our hearts so that we can protect ourselves from those critical
punches that can potentially take us down!
LORD, thank you for
taking the penalty for our sins. Thank
you for giving us all the tools that we need to live victoriously. FATHER,
help us to guard our hearts and if there should be a time when our guard is
down, please be our shield. In Jesus’ Name
we pray – Amen.
“The heart is
deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
Who can understand it? I the LORD
search the heart and examine the mind......” Jeremiah 17:9-10
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