Your heart matters

“Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12:34). This reminds us to see the heart of the close. How do we store up good things in our heart? The writer of the Proverbs urges; “Store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding…For wisdom will enter your heart.” (2:1-2, 10) It really matters how one trains his/her heart.

If one stores God’s word in him/her, it certainly becomes his/her life-style. We would be shaped in the standard of the text. Someone writes, ‘Every word we speak either be a brick to build or bulldozer to destroy.” The word is much heavier than our actions. Whatever is stored up in our heart, will sooner or later be expressed by our words. Therefore, we need to fill our heart with good things so that we would see a noble impact in others later. Jeremiah says that the most cunning heart- its’ beyond help. Who can figure it out? (Jeremiah 17: 9) The Lord alone can probe the heart and discern the motives (10). We live in a consumer-oriented society where people look at the outside rather than the inside. People do not really bother how things go in the heart.  Pleasure and fame overtakes the heart.  The scripture reminds us in Proverbs 4:23 as “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” If you want to gain the fullness of life, let us guard our heart from the desire of the world.