Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life
(Proverbs 4:23).
Everything God has planned concerning
your life, everything you’d ever become, is in your heart. That’s why He wants
you to guard your heart with all diligence. That means you should carefully and
conscientiously watch and guard what goes into your heart.
Think about an orange seed; that seed
carries all the potentials of an orange tree. When you place it in the right
environment, it’ll produce roots, stem, branches, leaves, and finally several
orange fruits, with many more seeds in them. Such extraordinary potentials are
programmed into a little seed.
Now, God tells you to diligently guard
your heart because there’re things that can come into your heart to change or
destroy His programming of good and excellence in you. On the other hand,
there’re things that can come into your heart to enable, enhance, and sustain
all the glorious things He’s already programmed into your life. God’s purpose
in your life is programmed into your heart. Everything you’d ever be,
everywhere you’d ever go, everything you’d ever do to please God in your life,
have all been programmed into your heart—your spirit—and He has given you the
responsibility to do all that’s necessary to keep your heart that way.
Since He’s specific as to where you’re
to mount the guard, your heart, it therefore means the problems can come
through thoughts. They can come through the senses and travel through your
thoughts, because the mind is the doorway to the spirit. Consequently, any
information that’s going to come through your mind, must be scanned and
filtered. If you allow the wrong information into your heart, you’ll live a
different life from that which God has planned for you. This is how people go
into crime, live terrible lives, and then try to blame others for their
misfortune. You’re the constructor of your life.
God’s programming in you is revealed by
His Word. His Word in you will change and destroy any contrary information, and
prevent them from taking root in your heart. So, tend your heart; take charge
of it with God’s Word! Refuse to accept thoughts and imaginations that are
inconsistent with the nature, will and purpose of God.
Prayer
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a
light unto my path. I’m led and guided by your Word in all things and at all
times. God has programmed my spirit for excellence and greatness, and as I stay
on His Word, my life is regulated accordingly, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study: Psalms 119:105;
acts 20:32
1 Year Bible Reading Plan : Jeremiah
23-25 2 timothy 3:1-17
2 Year Bible Reading Plan : James
1:1-27 Ezekiel 27
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