"Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life."
Proverbs 4:23
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We may feel that our unexpressed desires and thoughts do not affect our outer lives, but this is a fallacy. Our physical hearts are vital to the health of our entire body; the same way as, our spiritual hearts are integral to our spiritual health. We know that ingesting poison is detrimental or fatal to our bodies, if we allow it into our systems it will maim or kill us eventually. What we allow into our hearts is even more dangerous. The word "issue" can be used as a noun or a verb. In the sense that it is a noun it means, "Something that is sent out or put forth in any form." Likewise as a verb, its meaning is, "To send out; discharge; emit" (dictionaryreference.com). So what we allow into our hearts, will become an issue and will issue forth from our lives. It is said that the eyes are the gateway to the soul; more aptly, they are the gateway to what we allow into our souls. Job had the right idea in verse 31:1 when he said, "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" We must consciously not allow ourselves to indulge in things that we know will lead to sin. Adding sin to loneliness or problems in our lives will not accomplish anything but digging us deeper in the problem. The enemy would have us believe that lie in order to drag us away from God and entangle us further. Be careful of what you allow your heart to dwell on, it certainly will become an issue.
Lord, in Jesus' name please show us the areas of our lives that we have allowed wrong thinking to invade. Please help us to guard our eyes and hearts. Thank You for Your mercy and grace, for without it we would be lost. Thank You for loving us in our sin, You are our only hope. I praise You and love You. Amen.
Patti
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