Guard Your Heart

You are the gate keeper of your life. You control what you allow to come in your life. You control what you read and meditate on. So since you control what enters your life then stop allowing garbage to filter your heart and mind. Stop listening to trash talk. Stop viewing things that will disturb your mind. Stop hanging around people who have no interest in cultivating the good in you. You see we are sinners, and we will sin before we will do good because it is just our nature. The word of God says, “When I want to do good, evil is always present (Romans 7:21).” That is the truth so it is important that we cultivate and protect the good that lies in us. You must be particular what infiltrates your mind, heart and soul. Yes, you need to start being picky about who you hang around. Yes, you need to be picky about the books you read. Yes,  you need to be picky about what you watch on television. Yes,  you need to be picky about what you are listening to. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit given to you from God and you should be picky about everything that comes around you to mess you up and destroy the good that is buried inside of you.

Proverbs 4:23

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

You should try at all cost to stay away from fleshy temptations. Your life was bought with the price of Jesus’ blood. So since our life was bought with a price, we should do everything to protect what enters our space. To some degree, you can control what comes to destroy you and all the good that lies within you, so stop being naive and guard your heart at all cost. There are somethings you have control over so use that control to guard the perimeter of your life. Use your mouth to pray to the Father for help in choosing the people in your life that come to strengthen you and not tear you down. Use your mouth to pray for wisdom to know what is best for you. Prayer works people of God, so are you praying in season and out of season for protection over every entrance part of your body? If not, you should start today. Pray for the Lord to strengthen your walk with Him and to send people into your life to build you up. Pray that you will be drawn to watch or read materials that will strengthen your walk with Him. Pray that He will help you guard your heart from everything that is set out to harm you. Pray these prayers over your life because you only have one life to live and what you do with this life matters. As the scripture says today, “Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”