The Guarded Heart

Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Our heart – an organ that pumps out blood and sustains our lives, yet we ascribe to the heart the ability to feel or to choose righteousness.  The word,...

Preparations for the New Year Begin with the Heart

Psalm 26:2 “Test me, O LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.” Matthew 6:21 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”  Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own...

True Righteousness

Philippians 3:8-9 “More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my LORD, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung! – that I may gain Christ  9...

A Test for the Heart

Proverbs 17:3 – “The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests the hearts.”Jeremiah 17:10 – “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct,...

Thoughtful Thursday: Weighing Motives of the Heart

Proverbs 16:1,2 The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD. All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates the motives. I love the book of Proverbs and read from this book or another...

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