Guarding your Heart from the Things of this World

"Above everything else, guard your heart; for it is the source of life's consequences. Keep crooked speech our of your mouth, banish deceit from your lips. Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze on what lies in front of you. Level the path for your feet, let all your ways be properly prepared; then deviate neither right nor left; and keep your foot far from evil. " Proverbs 4:23-27 ...Complete Jewish Bible

Practicing or promoting practical holiness seems to be old school terminology of a bye gone era of the Puritans that seem to encourage acting, speaking a certain way or dressings in some fashion to indicate sanctification of one's self. The words of King Solomon still press on through history and lie before use to consider. As well Peter in the New Testament echoes a similar calling to the Children of God.

" Therefore, get your minds ready for work, keep yourselves under control, and fix your hopes fully on the gift you will receive when Yeshua the Messiah is revealed. As people who obey God, do not let yourselves be shaped by the evil desires you used to have when you were still ignorant. On the contrary, follow the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in your entire way of life." I Peter 1:13-15 ... Complete Jewish Bible


Many folks simply think that they would have to leave this world to live holy lives. But that is contrary to the Holy Scriptures. If such thinking is contrary then there must be a way to live one's life in a holy manner. It is through the power of the Holy Spirit in one's life. The Bible teaches us that God's Spirit takes up residence in our spirit. It is not by our power, but by His Spirit through us that we can live holy lives.


Start with these simples beginning points.

• What do you read?
• What do you listen to?
• What do you speak?
• What do you allow to come into your heart through the TV or Internet?

Test these portals of your life and see if they need to be guarded. What we allow to go into our mind and heart will determine the type of well spring you are allowing to guide your life.