I’ve been thinking a lot recently about guarding my heart and asking Holy Spirit what it means to do that and HOW to do it well.

1. Guarding my heart is protecting it from collecting offenses, grudges, and resentment.
2. Guarding my heart keeps it soft toward God and truth, but it becomes hard when I don’t guard it.
3. Guarding my heart is living from God’s strength rather than striving on my own.
4. Guarding my heart keeps my view of God in the right place.

Ways to Guard Our Hearts

1. Reading and meditating on God’s word
2. Being in authentic relationship with people who love and speak truth to us
3. Spending time with God in worship and prayer
4. Being humble before God and others and repenting from sin

Proverbs 4:20-27

Guarding our heart keeps God at the center of our life and truth at the center of our mind. But a hardened heart will cause us to compromise our life one small choice at a time until we’re living in a way that we never wanted to.

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