Guard your heart!
Proverbs 4:23 is a serious warning about guarding your heart. To get a feel for how important Solomon believed this was, you must start at verse 20 and read all the way through 27. The 'heart' is not referring to the organ in your chest pumping blood throughout your body...it's the subconscious mind. Our being is made up of different parts, as referred to in the Bible: 1. the physical body - often referred to as our 'flesh' 2. the mind - our conscious thoughts 3. the heart - our subconscious thoughts 4. the spirit - the Holy Spirit within us When God says to hide His words in our hearts - that means to dwell on them so much that they are tucked away in our subconscious mind, influencing everything we think, say or do. That's the part of us that is influenced by the music we listen to, the movies we watch, the things we say to ourselves...that 'self-talk' that we play over and over in our head. How do...