Guard Your Heart Above All Else, For It Determines The Course Of Your Life.

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Guard Your Heart
Above All Else,
For It Determines The Course Of Your Life.

Scripture

Proverbs 4

23 Guard your heart above all else,
for it determines the course of your life.

24 Avoid all perverse talk;
stay away from corrupt speech.

25 Look straight ahead,
and fix your eyes on what lies before you.

26 Mark out a straight path for your feet;
stay on the safe path.

27 Don’t get sidetracked;
keep your feet from following evil.

Observation

Can you imagine driving on a mountain road or going across a bridge that has no guardrails? Living your life without guardrails is just as scary and just as dangerous!

I don’t know or care what you call them but it just makes good sense to set up “guardrails” for our lives. Guardrails that will keep us from getting off track. They will keep us from going over the edge to crash and burn!

One click of the mouse on your computer, taking a drink again, one conversation alone with someone of the opposite sex that is not your spouse, all of us are just a few steps away from crossing the line and getting off of the safe path.

Lets set some boundaries for our lives. Lets put up some guardrails before we crash and burn, before we mess up our marriage, before we mess up our life!

Lets do it now! It is never too late!

Rick Warren’s Standards for his staff at Saddleback Church

1. Thou shalt not go to lunch alone with the opposite sex. *
2. Thou shalt not have the opposite sex pick you up or drive you places when it is just the two of you. *
3. Thou shalt not kiss any attendee of the opposite sex or show affection that could be questioned. *
4. Thou shalt not visit the opposite sex alone at home.
5. Thou shalt not counsel the opposite sex alone at the office, and thou shalt not counsel the opposite sex more than once without that person’s mate. Refer them.
6. Thou shalt not discuss detailed sexual problems with the opposite sex in counseling. Refer them.
7. Thou shalt not discuss your marriage problems with an attendee of the opposite sex.
8. Thou shalt be careful in answering emails, instant messages, chatrooms, cards, or letters from the opposite sex.
9. Thou shalt make your secretary your protective ally.
10. Thou shalt pray for the integrity of other staff members.
* The first three do not apply to unmarried staff.

Application

I will guard my heart and I will use guardrails and boundaries to keep me on the right path. How about you?

Prayer

Heavenly Father, thank You for saving me. I am a sinner. I know what You say in Jeremiah 17:9 about my heart is so true, “The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Help me to guard my heart. Keep me on the right path. Keep me from following evil.

I pray for anyone reading this blog that is struggling with temptation and maybe has already crossed over into sinful behavior. Help them to repent. Help them to renew their relationship with You. Help them to set up the necessary guardrails in his or her life that will help keep them on the right path and heading in the right direction.

Daily Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 8,9; 1 Chronicles 18,19; Matthew 21; I added Psalm 34, Psalm 134; Proverbs 4

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