I will just get right to the “heart” of this post ( sorry, LOL) but God is really speaking to me about the care and usage of our hearts. He is also confirming to me the connection between our spiritual hearts and our physical hearts. It is crucial to take good care of both.
Listen to a Father’s instruction. Proverbs 4, verses 23-24.
“Above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it. Keep your mouth free of perversity, and keep corrupt talk far from your lips.” What does this mean exactly?
Guarding anything means to keep it safe. We keep things safe so that nothing can damage it, right? In the very next verse we are warned about the things that can damage our hearts. Perversity and corrupt talk. Lying. Gossip. Slander. Coarse language. Hurtful words that wound. The list goes on and on. If we incur this type of damage we are prone to pass it on. That’s how “sin” tangles us up, it’s a cycle of damaging events and choices- and because everything we do flows from our hearts, that means that IF we have not protected our hearts, we are not going to be protecting anything from damaging another heart. Sad.
God showed me that our hearts are His love storehouse. If it’s not taken care of, any Love He puts there can be contaminated. And if everything we do flows from a contaminated spiritual storehouse- that means it will in turn have an effect on our physical well being. (EVERYTHING we do.) I see a connection here. A sick spirit heart could very well damage the physical heart.
We know what some of the advice is when our physical hearts are sick. Eat more healthy foods. Exercise. Find the best doctor and follow his advice. Do what he says.
But what happens when we begin to understand that the root issue is in our spiritual hearts? What happens when we begin to understand that the real problem is not so much that we have done or said something we shouldn’t have, but that we have a heart that is bitter, unforgiving, wounded and hurting and we are too prideful to admit it?
Same course of treatment. Read God’s word and do what God says. Exercise some spiritual discipline and PRAY for God’s help. He is the Great Physician after all.
Father, please help us. Help us to admit that we aren’t using grace like we should. We don’t come to You like we should and we are sick and spiritually anemic because of it. Forgive us, help us, heal us and make us whole in You, Jesus.
In Your precious name we pray, Amen.
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