Proverbs 4:23 is most likely a verse that we’ve all heard a time or two.
Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.
It’s a simple verse.
Easy to remember.
Difficult to apply.
Because most of the time, we don’t even know we’ve left our heart unguarded.
Our pride and arrogance gets the better of us and we think, “I’ve got this under control.”
Then we slip up.
We get drunk. We slander our friend. We look at porn. We judge and look down on the people around us. We have an affair.
We do any number of sins that show, obviously, that we left our heart unguarded.
I really like the way Casting Crowns said it in their song Slow Fade, “People never crumble in a day.” It’s a slow process that leads to us failing in ways like this.
In Genesis 4, God says to Cain, “…if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you…”
Sin waits for us.
Satan is patient, he puts little things in our path to begin the process of opening ourselves up to fail in these ways.
Guard your heart. Always.
Ask God where you are leaving yourself unguarded. Then deal with those reasons.
Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.
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