Guard Your Heart

Proverbs 4:23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the

wellspring of life.”

The heart is often spoken of in God's Word as our innermost being.

Our heart is so much more that just our affections as some think.

 It is regarded as being the seat of the intellect, home of our soul, housing our feelings, and marshalling our will.

If you agree with this thinking like I do, then our heart is the starting point of the activities of life; it determines the course of life. Our heart guides and directs all that we do. Every word that comes out of our mouth starts in the heart. All of our actions, behaviors, and choices are driven by the desires of the heart.

The proverb gives us a profound truth. The condition of our heart

(our emotions, our will, our mind) affects everything.

We would like to think that science is unbiased, that reporting is fair       minded, or that economics is neutral. But we quickly find that all fields of   knowledge have lenses that they assume to be true.  Even Chuck C. in    AA talked about his “New Pair of Glasses”! That is why the Scripture was given to us as the lens to see the world. 
Otherwise, other lenses are there to color our heart and  taint the water  that comes out of our    life. Which lens are you looking through today?
 Are you guarding your heart?

Proverbs 4:23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the

wellspring of life.”

“One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change.” AA Big Book, THE DOCTOR'S OPINION  xxvii

“They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power      greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things. There has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.”  AA Big Book Page 50