GUARD YOUR HEART; YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT
Mark 7:5, "There is nothing from without
a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of
him, those are they that defile the man."
The human heart is the center of the
human consciousness; it is where creativity takes place. It is like
a processing plant or the central processing unit of a computer. Whatever information
is received into the heart is processed, multiplied and manifested . It is also the seat of wisdom. The information we constantly pay
attention to, soon becomes our reality , resulting in corresponding
actions and a life pattern or character and eventually a destiny; either good or
bad. We are the masters of our destinies.
The relationship between human action
and the spirit of God is like that which exists between the airplane pilot and
the wind.A good pilot studies the wind to ensure a safe flight.Jesus said in John 3:8 that “The wind blows wherever it wants.
Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it is
going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit." What this
means is that spiritual life is dynamic and unpredictable definitely not with horoscopes. Just as winds respond to pressure variations: moving from a region of high pressure to a lower one, likewise, the pressures of life determine the dynamics of the human life. If
we allow ourselves to be influenced by negative pressure, we would have no
option but to yield by altering our value system to accommodate negativity.
The scriptures says in Prov 16:9 KJV “ A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth
his steps” the word
deviseth is the Hebrew word ‘chashab’ which means: to interpenetrate, weave, fabricate;
think, regard, value, compute: meaning we have a role to play in fabricating
the quality of life we desire to live, through our value system. In a bid to be
up to date we sometimes allow ourselves get pressurized into changing our value system in other to fit into a person's
infinitesimal ‘world’. A case in point is that of Samson ,
God knew he was going to be destroyed by Delilah and yet allowed him because he
had embraced the value system of the Philistine thus violating the terms of His covenant with God ( Judges13:3-6,14:3-4). Once the room for a
temptation is created by a person, God has no option but to allow it come to
pass. That’s why Jesus
while teaching the disciples to pray said in Matt 6:13(Mssg Bible) “Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in
charge!” Samson
thought he had everything under control. That kind of thinking is symptomatic
of a backsliding heart described in Prov 14:14 NKJV “The backslider in heart will be
filled with his own ways,..”
Samson was no longer delighted being in the midst of God's people, he had no
passion for God (psalm 77:2). The is a perfect recipe for family crisis and wastage . Persons
with similar value
systems( good or bad) are attract each other and eventually cohabit .
What we tolerate, we soon celebrate
and eventually replicate. It is against this backdrop that we should be very selective
about what we adopt as life’s principles . Matt
5:8 AMP says “Blessed
(happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous — possessing the happiness produced
by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation
of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God!
“Guard your heart above all else, for
it determines the course of your life” ( Prov 4:23).
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