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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. |
