Guard your heart

I love my wife and kids. I mean, I LOVE THEM. I love Trish like I have never loved anyone else, and will never love anyone the way I love her. I love Blake and Olivia as I have never loved other human beings, and like I will never love any other human being. I love them! There is nothing I wouldn't do for them (within reason, of course).

So, where does it come from? A play on words from The Lion King, "Where do you feel the love tonight?" Of course, the love comes from the heart. It is from the heart that everything springs forth, good and bad. Just as we experience the deepest love from the heart, the darkest hate also emanates from there.

Today's word is Proverbs 4:23, NIV, which reads, "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it."

We have to guard our hearts because EVERYTHING we do flows from the heart. We have to make sure that what comes from the heart is good and just. We can't do that if we allow things that are not good and just to enter our hearts. Why? Because, once again, trash in = trash out. If we allow evil things to take root in our heart, it won't be long before evil things spring forth from our hearts. Guard it.

I want the love I've been given, the love I experience every day, to flow freely from my heart. I want GOD'S love that He so graciously gives me each day to be what others see. We have to guard our hearts because everything we do flows from it.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T