Guard your heart!!!

The heart is so fragile, yet strong enough to determine our existence. Just as the heart is biologically essential to life, so also, the state of our hearts largely determine the kind of lives we live. A heart that is inclined to goodness and success will bring forth goodness and success, while a heart that is inclined to evil and failure, will also produce its kind. What is your heart inclined to?

It seems to me that life is a journey and the driver is the heart. The heart determines the direction of each individual's life journey. Unfortunately, the heart does not do this independently. It is largely influenced by external factors, such as what we read, the company we keep, what we see or watch, who and what we listen to, or what we incline our hearts to. 

In a perverse world, with rapid development and technological advancement, we cannot afford to leave our hearts unguarded. Today's world brings us closer to varieties of both good and bad things. We are closer each day to all kinds of news, both depressing and encouraging. We are faced with all forms of technology, both life-saving and destructive, and more than ever before different options that can either make or mar us tend to lurk around. 

While, this development is good in itself, it poses great danger to an unguarded heart. Such heart is open and influenced by all sorts of information, it becomes a target for destructive ideas which eventually destroys such a life here on earth and also in eternity. That is why we are reminded to think on such things that are noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8). For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks; meaning, who or whatever we become in life is a product of what is instilled in our hearts. Check yourself!!!!!!

Deciding on what to guard our hearts from could be tricky but such things becomes clearer if we  make the Bible our standard. Guarding our hearts requires us to take control by making conscious efforts and decisions to incline our hearts to godly and positive information. Where others are saying there is a casting down, we are able to guide our hearts to the fact that with the Lord on our side, there is a lifting up. Where the Internet gives us options of filthy contents,we are able to guard our hearts towards the edifying contents. When life throws the negatives at us, we are able to keep our hearts fixed on the positives. Finally,  always remember that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, thus, 'allow the peace of God, which transcends all understanding to guard your heart and your mind' (Philippians 4:8).

"the mind controlled by sin is death but the life controlled by the spirit is life and peace" Romans 8:6.