Mind Your Heart

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

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Today we learn about protecting and guarding our hearts with care and persistence. Most of us would agree with me that almost everything that happens to us is taken to heart, whether it be unwholesome or not. Take for instance, when we are disappointed, we take it to heart, when we are hurt or abused we take it to hurt, everything that hurts us and discourages us is taken in till the heart screams and bleed with pain.

Irrespective of that, it is out of this heart that the issues of life arise, the joy that keeps us from sorrow and depression, the strength that pushes us to achieve the extra mile when it seems impossible, and the hope that urges us to keep on keeping on. All things unwholesome disrupts the trend and causes us to retrogress. In a world full of negativities, being a Christian will surely come with trials and temptations and tribulations, irrespective of that we must come out better and more lighter after going through the darkness.

So how then do we deal with the pains and hurts that the world presents us? We can send them out instead of keeping them in the heart, with the help of the Holy Ghost, instead of brooding over the pain that turns us bitter and affects our quality of life, we should let it go, and we should learn to shut the door to negative pasts. By the authority of the Christ and power of the mind we would be able to achieve it if we set out minds to it. Have a blessed day today, as you learn to let go of unwholesome pasts and pains today for you to become a better person.