Above All

January 19, 2013

There’s a verse in Proverbs 4 that says “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

Wow, that’s a loaded verse.  How do we guard our hearts?  We must be careful how we love and where we place our hearts.  In another place, the Bible says where our treasure is – there our heart is also.  So it makes sense that we are guarded about the things we treasure.  If we treasure things that are not lasting, we’re going to be disappointed and our hearts will suffer.

The second half of the above verse says everything we do flows from our heart.  This is obvious, just from watching and listening to even celebrities – like Lance Armstrong.  Whatever our passion, our drive, even our hurts – these things drive us to do what we do.  So if our heart has suffered a wound, what we do comes out of that hurt.  If our heart experiences great satisfaction – what we do and say comes out of that contentment.

The verse starts with “Above all else…”  It would be a wise thing today to see just where our heart lies, to redirect it towards eternal things, and then watch guard over it – so that the things we do flow from a healthy heart – not a damaged one.