Keep Your Heart With All Diligence
PROVERBS 4:23 NKJ
23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it
spring the
issues of life.
You have probably heard the saying concerning computers, "Input
equals output." Or, the more popular term, "Garbage in,
garbage out."
That does not apply to just computers, but also to human
beings. If what we feed in is bad, we cannot expect the results
to be good.
Today we are constantly bombarded with messages on every side.
Everyone wants to influence us to do something -- usually to
buy their product or service.
Distraction is a major problem we face. Because of the
information overload we must deal with, it is easy to be
distracted from what is most important: God's Word.
It is not so much that the information we are feeding into our
hearts and minds is necessarily bad, just that it can easily
crowd out what is most important from our lives.
PROVERBS 4:20-22 NKJ
20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear
to my
sayings.
21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the
midst of your heart;
22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all
their flesh.
God's Word is not just another message, but something that has
life in it. Just because your senses are not aware of the life
emanating from God's Word is no proof. Nuclear radiation is
also unseen and unfelt -- but, as we know, can quickly kill
you. God's Word is the opposite -- it radiates life.
HEBREWS 4:12 BBE
12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and
is
sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a
division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the
muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the
heart.
God is our Source of existence. In His Word there is a deposit
of life from Him that we require to live and operate optimally.
That means that without a constant feeding on the Word of God,
you are living below what God intended for you.
SAY THIS: I will keep my heart with all diligence. I will feed
in the Word of God which gives life.
