It Takes Heart!

We don’t much think about our heart until there is something wrong. Kind of like plumbing, you never think about it until there is a leak or it backs up. This past week my Dad was feeling bad and I thought it might be his heart. Turns out it was something else serious but not critical. Heart issues are critical. Jesus said ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21 HCSB. In another way we don’t often think about guarding our heart. Yet it is so critical to our walk of faith. We must guard this new heart Christ has given us. But the question is how? Following are a couple of thoughts how to go about that.

Think Promisingly

⁸ Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8 HCSB

I walk while the beagle smells everything in the dark each morning. Those can be dark times in my mind as well. It is crazy how dark thoughts and feelings well up so easily and have to be repelled sternly. It requires me to be proactive in my thinking and outlook. Remind yourself whose you are!  

Meditate Purposely

⁴⁵ A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. Luke 6:45 HCSB

Consider carefully what you put into your heart. It WILL come out. Consider God’s blessings and goodness to you through all of your life. What do you watch, listen to and who do you surround yourself with? Ask are they positive influences or negative? Do they build you up in God’s direction or some other direction? 

Speak Positively

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29 HCSB             To others, To yourself

Now we think of foul language as the seven words George Carlin spoke of so long ago. Yet there is a foul language we speak to ourselves every minute of every day. The one that says we are not smart, strong, pretty, tough, capable you know. The voice that keeps on and on and on in our head that sounds like us. We need to replace that monologue with positive words to ourselves and to others.

I want you to know it is so critical to life and living abundantly that God promises ⁷ And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7 HCSB It’s that important to each one of us. It is critical to our living. Let us guard our hearts as they are transformed into the heart of God.

In HIS Service and Yours

Bro G