I have many favourite bible verses, one of them is found in the book of proverbs: Proverbs 4:23Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. another version says, keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.
the original language talks about a military garrison, thats how we are to guard it with diligence, intent and purpose. One commentator described our hearts as "the citadel of man" and "the seat of his treasure" in other words our very essence and fibre.
We need to know our hearts in order to guard them. Its not that we are to focus on our weaknesess and allow them to make us feel bad. We must however be aware of them, if we are aware we can put armour in our weakest places in order to protect ourselves. Our enemy is ruthless we too must be ruthless too in protecting ourselves, never allowing hearts to be unprotected. We don't fight in our own strenght we have Gods powerful Holy Spirit with us and he is fighting for us and with us.
So My prayer is Lord help me to keep clean hands and pure heart.
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