Guard Your Heart

 "Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." Proverbs 4:23

The bible talks a lot about the heart being the wellspring of life. From the heart flows everything going on inside of us, our emotions, our passions, thoughts, words, and actions. Therefore we need to guard it. Guard it against attacks. If our heart lets anger, bitterness or jealousy (just to name a few) enter into it it affects not just ourselves. The outflow of our hearts affects friends, family, coworkers, etc. We guard it by reading about God's word, knowing God's word, thinking about it, and memorizing it. All of this translates into changing our thoughts and our heart, at which point we start living it.

"After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him, 'I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, he will do everything I want him to do.'" Acts 13:22. 

David was considered to be a man after God's own heart. A man who lied, committed adultery and murdered. How can that be? The thing about David was just what the verse says, he had a deep desire to follow God's will and do "everything" God wanted him to do, even when he messed up big time. Once his sin was pointed out to him by Nathan (although it seemed pretty obvious, he just needed to be confronted with it) he didn't just acknowledge it and ask for forgiveness. He was truly repentant. He wrote about it in Psalm 51. We get to see a lot of David's heart through the Psalms that he wrote. Of the 150 Psalms written he is credited for writing over half of them.

This Sunday we begin a series on "The Life of David" that will take us through most of the summer. We hope you will join us as we begin this journey to learn more about God's heart and Davids, and how to apply this to our hearts. See you Sunday!


Blessings,

Brenda Geiger, SCF Staff