“From the Abundance of One’s Heart”

Abundance of the Heart
 
 
 

 

by Dona Hake

 
 
The Lord desires that we diligently care for our hearts, minds and tongues. It is up to us what we make good deposits of His Word into our hearts and minds. If you are a person that takes it seriously to guard your heart than you well understand the battle that it can be. Daily we are bombarded with things that serve to pull us away. Thoughts can seemingly come out of nowhere, and if our hearts are not rock solid with His Word, we will not know how to properly discern right from wrong.  How sad it is when words proceed from the mouth of the unguarded heart. 
 
 
 
 
 

I would like to focus on the importance of the guarded heart in the area of how one sees himself as the Lord does.    The Lord desires that we draw upon His grace and ability to do His great work in us.    If we do not, we will focus on our inability and our weaknesses.   This is an area where everyone of us can become weak and fall prey too.    For instance, if we make mistakes we can be tempted to not forgive ourselves, and we keep thinking about our mistake.  Ultimately if left unchecked it can cause one to fear stepping out because of the fear of failure.  As we meditate upon negative thoughts about ourselves that negative will grow bigger and bigger in our mind. The strength of any negative will be an arrow that the devil will use against us. One of his main tools will be our own tongues. You may begin to speak things about yourself, and you put yourself down. Eventually the more you hear those words from your own mouth, you will begin to believe them.

 

 
 
 
 
Proverbs 4:24(ERV)
“Don’t bend the truth or say things that you know are not right. “
 
 
 
 
 
 
We well know it is wrong to bend the truth, and say things that are not right,  but let it be established in our hearts that we apply this truth to how we think and speak about ourselves.   As we stay full of His Word and remind ourselves of who He says we are, we will not fall prey to lies about ourselves.  We will stand strong in knowing who we are in Christ Jesus.   I encourage you today to guard your heart with ALL diligence for from it truly flows the issues of this life.   May the abundance of our hearts be a life flow that proceeds from our time with Him, and  the nourishment of His Word.