Motivational Monday: Guard Your Heart

 

"There is one area of your personality that is more important than any
other and that is your heart.  The state of your heart will determine the
course of your life.  You are advised and admonished by God to guard your
heart more than all else. It is the most important thing that's committed to
your keeping, the condition of your own heart."
-Derek Prince

I remember many years ago in a country in East Africa, when I was
serving as a principal at a college for training teachers, on the wall on the
dormitory of my students one of them had written the Scripture up in her
own particular language.  And I read it in that language and translated it
literally, and it stayed with me ever since. It says, "Guard your heart
with all your strength, for all the things there are in life come out of it."

Everything in your life ultimately proceeds out of your heart. The
condition of your heart is going to determine the condition of your life.
Guard it will all your strength.  Don't let any evil in; don't make room
for unbelief, for bitterness, for fear, for anxiety, because if there are bitter
things in your heart, then there will be bitterness in your life.

But if your heart is pure and clean, if your heart is filled with faith
and love and with truth and with righteousness, then the course 
 of your life will be a course of success.

So, remember that.  Guard your heart with all your strength 
 for all the things there are in life come out of it."

Derek Vaughn Prince
(1915-2003)
 Beloved brother in the Lord
American Bible teacher/author