Keep and guard
your heart with all vigilance
and above
all that you guard,
for out of
it flow the springs of life.
Prov 4:23
The Hebrew
word for heart is leb and is
translated
throughout Scripture as heart,
mind and will.
The Hebrew
mindset never separated
the heart
from the mind.
We need to
guard our hearts,
which
includes our minds,
because
everything flows from
the way we
think or feel.
I need to
be on guard today.
There are
so many thoughts
vying for
my attention.
In the
presence of Jesus,
I am filled
with peace and hope.
But I can
get distracted even in the
midst
of presence, and
thoughts of discouragement
and anxiousness
come flooding in.
I refocus
and ask for His grace
to hold me
in the moment.
I am
struggling to keep my mind fixed today.
There is a
narrow path my thoughts must walk
and I am
fighting to stay on that path.
There is
much encouragement and direction
to be
received from His Word,
both the
written and the softly spoken rhema.
He whispers
to me that He is able to walk me
along the
path of right thinking today.
And He
points me to Philippians
to rehearse
strategy and get a game plan.
Whatever is
true, worthy of reverence,
honorable,
just, pure, lovely, lovable,
kind, and gracious,
if there is
any virtue and excellence,
if there is
anything worthy of praise,
think
on and take into account these things:
fix your
mind on them.
I choose to
fix my mind today
according
to His word.
Resting in
His mercy and enabling grace,
I will
guard my heart above all else,
trusting
that He will cause abundant
springs of
life to flow this day.
Lord, bind
my wandering heart to Thee!
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