Pastor Luis Rodriguez
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last devotional, many things have happened in our church, but in all those news, some tragic and some happy let’s give thanks to God for everything that he has done for us, in the same spirit, I have been thinking a lot on the word in Proverbs 4:23. “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” this verse reminds us that we must be vigilant with our heart that we must protect it, because everything we do will flow from it. These words are heavy when we put them in the full context of this proverb. This proverb is a reminder that we must seek wisdom and the biblical wisdom we seek is with a profound reverence for God (Proverbs 1:7).
We see this beautiful climax to chapter 4 in verses 20-27, we see a stern call to attention from verses 20-22, to pay attention and keep these words in our hearts, his words of wisdom will guide us in our paths and the key to this is to guard our hearts, by guarding our hearts we can keep ourselves from corruption, and we can keep ourselves in the paths of righteousness.
Many times, in our walk we find ourselves in difficult situations, many times sin is at our door, maybe we are angry at God, maybe because we feel that he did not answer our prayer, but God is calling us to keep his word and his ways, and above all else to guard our hearts. We must endure in guarding our hearts and if we can find wisdom in this chapter of Proverb’s, my prayer is that we can live up to the words on verse 23, to guard our hearts, because it is precious, and it is important in everything we do, to guard our hearts from the ways of corruption, to guard our hearts from sin, to have a heart like God, because from our hearts flow’s everything we do, then if our hearts are like God’s, then goodness of God will flow from us to bless others.
Maybe we have been lacking in guarding ourselves from sin, or things that leads us astray from God’s way, but it’s calling us to repentance if we have gone astray, and maybe this is just the perfect time to start guarding our hearts so that from it the light and love of God can flow onto others, and many can see Christ in us.
My dear familia of faith, lets guard our hearts so that our life does not become corrupted by all those things that afflict us in this life, lets guard it so that we can be Christ bearers in this world, and for us to keep the paths of God’s righteousness, and many can come to Christ. Life its hard and maybe that same harshness has distracted us from guarding our hearts, if we find ourselves in this situation, let’s start today in guarding our hearts, because everything we do flows from it.
May you be blessed with these words.