Guard Your Heart

Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.

We are to barricade our heart against anything or anyone else that seek to claim it.

Our heart belongs to God alone and no one else. No one should be given the right into our heart except God. Only God, our Creator and Maker can have the permission to lead, guide and instruct our heart.

There are many claimants to our heart but they can only possess it with our permission. If something or someone has taken hold of it, it is because we have let down our “heart-gate” and let it or him/her in.

Christianity is all about Christ possessing us, having every bit and corner of us. There is nowhere and no place in our lives in which God has no occupation of.

To love God with all our heart means that there is no room for others. God is a jealous God and there is no one worthy enough to be His rival in love.

Pierce the heart and one dies. Capture the heart and dominion over the person is completed. Out of the heart come all our motives, desires and motivations. That is why we must safeguard it. We must diligently and consciously protect it from invasions other than God.

Does safeguarding our heart make us callous and cold? Far from it.

If God is the only Captain of our heart, we will love more, care more and usually cry more. Yet the people we love, the things we care about do not have the power to lead us. We are not ordered by these fallible beings or fickle issues but our heartstrings are pulled and our decisions are based on the eternal loving God.

Guard our heart against anything or anyone who seeks to command it for it belongs to God and God alone. Only He is worthy and wise enough to direct our paths.