Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23)
Why should you keep your heart?
The Bible says, that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. What’s in your heart determines who you are, how you speak, act, and live. Therefore, it’s important to keep your heart pure before the Lord, and fill your heart with the right things and then guard your heart.
If you love God and seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated, and renew your mind and fill your heart with the words and things of God and His Kingdom, then you will think, speak, and act as a son of God (this applies to both males and females). You will live in peace with God and honor and glorify Him through your life.
But if you love the world and seek the things that are on earth and fill your heart with the words and things of this world, then you will think, speak, act and live like the world. You will live in enmity with God and deny Jesus through your life
How do you keep your heart with all diligence?
You keep your heart pure by spending time with God and feed yourself with the words of God. Read and study the Bible and pray. Listen to the Word and believe the words of God. Submit, obey and apply the words of God in your life.
The words of God are seeds that are planted in your life.
When you plant, nourish and guard the seeds (the words of God), you sow in your spirit and the seeds will grow. You will bear the fruit of the Spirit and reap life.
Don’t let the cares and the things of the world choke the words of God.
When you feed yourself with the things of the world, you sow in your flesh and shall bear the fruit of the flesh, and reap corruption.
You decide on which field you sow: the spirit or the flesh. Your fruit reveals on which field you have sown. (Read also: The four kinds of believers).
Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life
The Father wants you to feed yourself with His words and keep your heart. He wants your heart to be filled with His Word and devoted to Him.
When His Word abides in your heart it’s important to keep and guard your heart. So that, what is in your heart will not be stolen and/or defiled by evil.
The Father wants you to keep your heart with all diligence, because out of your heart are the issues of life.
‘Be the salt of the earth’
