Guard Your Heart
About this series
As we return to Sunday meetings we realise that people may have become weary and lost some focus. So in our next series we hope to help people deal well with their internal space as well as grasp opportunities and return to ‘action.’ Of course, these two things are very closely connected as people always live out what is happening internally. By ‘heart’ the Bible means the core of a person’s being; the seat of emotion, desire, thought and decision. The biblical term ‘heart’ relates most closely to the modern idea of ‘mind’
About this talk
Proverbs 4:23
The writer speaks of 'guarding your heart' being of supreme importance for the reason that “everything you do flows from it.” This is a fairly shocking statement, warning us that if we don’t keep a healthy inner life, we will fall into all sorts of trouble. One recent high-profile example demonstrates this principle - Carl Lentz has said of his recent ‘fall,’ “When you lead out of an empty place, you make choices that have real and painful consequences.”
Self-care is a wise thing, stewarding ourselves in order to love God and love people.
How does God’s care and protection of our hearts work alongside our responsibility to guard our hearts?
In order to guard our hearts, we need to know what to watch out for. Some of those things are universal, some more specific to each individual - things such as disappointment, bitterness, unforgiveness, jealousy, accommodating sin, etc.
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