Keep your heart

Proverbs 4:23 – Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

It’s such a common phrase: “I gave my heart to him, I love him.” It’s such a common idea that when you love someone you give your heart to them.

This little verse says you should keep your heart and diligently, at that. You should not be giving your heart away. Except of course, to God, And even that only once you are in a relationship with Him. (We will do a study on this).

So what is so important about your heart that you should not give it away?

I actually don’t know and will have to study this.

What I can say, is this: keep your head and keep your heart. I think that if you give it away, you are giving control of your life away. You are giving away your soul. You should be in control of yourself at all times, which is why you shouldn’t get drunk. When you don’t have control, the devil has a door to enter.

When you give your heart away, you are giving someone else control over your life. You are opening a door for the devil, because you are not in control. Will the person to whom you are giving your heart, guard it as fiercely as you would? We would like to believe so, but the truth is, unfortunately, no.

Words are powerful, and whether or not you believe in the terms, there are certain terms used in the Bible to describe certain things and we should stick to those. Even if we say “I give you my heart” and mean “I love you with all my heart” , you are not saying what you mean, and what you are saying is something completely different to what you are meaning. The devil knows the difference.

From what I understand, you keep your heart. You don’t give it to anyone. God will take your old heart and give you a new one, with your permission of course. But you give Him permission to take your heart, you are not even giving it. Not from what the Bible describes. God will give you a new heart. And, then, you keep that one, too. You guard it, you protect it. You don’t give it to anyone.

But, like I said, this is something very new. A very different angle from what I grew up with. I will need to do a study on this.

GUARD YOUR HEART – KEEP YOUR HEART. Your life depends on it.