Guard Your Heart!

 

Proverbs 4:23

"Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life."

The bible talks about the heart so much from Genesis to Revelation, God our Creator wants us to understand that the heart (inner, spiritual one), not the organ, is the most important part of a human soul. 

God Himself said to His prophet Samuel in 1st Samuel 16:5-7

"And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice. So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!”

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

I can tell you from my own life, that if your heart is hard for whatever the reason, it will keep you from truly loving anybody, even your own self! A hard heart will also keep you from receiving love from others as well. Eveything will just be 'meh', and 'whatever', when people do their best to love you and help you. 

Jesus said that out of the heart the mouth speaks!

Matthew 12:33-35

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things."

Matthew 15:16-19

"So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies."

Jesus made it so clear for us to understand how important it is to have a clean and pure heart!

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!"

In Christ,

Tyrone