What comes to mind when you hear these words?
What do you think of when it comes to guarding your heart?
Proverbs 4:23 says,
"Guard your heart, because everything you do flows from it."
What comes to mind when you think about what this means for your life?
There's all sorts off situations that come to mind for what this means that you could be thinking of.
For a long time when I read this verse, I thought pretty much only about romantic relationships, because that's where I heard this verse used the most. It was a caution against getting too involved with someone until I was married to them.
That's part of it, but there is so much more involved.
The idea of heart here is everything that makes you you. Your will. Your intellect. Your mind. Your emotions. Your passions. Your motives. Your desires. All of that makes up who you are.
This is what we're being told to guard here, because it impacts how we live our lives.
What we do & how we do it is impacted by our hearts. The way we interact with people & form relationships is part of this - whether friendships or other. Even our relationship with God is impacted by this.
Because of how important our heart is to how we live, we're told to guard it. We need to pay close attention to what we're allowing to have influence in our hearts. We can't go through life unaware. It matters.
So, how are you doing at guarding your heart?
Are there things in your life that need to change?
