Good Heart Medicine

“Above all else, guard your heart,

    for everything you do flows from it.”

Proverbs 4:23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You have asked God to cleanse your heart and He has.

Now what?

A cleansed heart must be guarded.

That doesn’t mean you run out and hire Clint Eastwood to threaten with

“Go ahead, make my day!” to anyone who dares to defile your heart!

It does mean you choose wisely (there’s that word choose again!) what you allow into your heart.

Paul wrote a prescription for this in his letter to the Philippians.

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is

 excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

Philippians 4:8

What do you meditate on?

If you could be attached to a machine that recorded your thought life moment-by-moment what would it reveal?

The old adage we often apply to computers is apropos here:

“Garbage in, garbage out!”

Do you meditate on what is true, noble, right and pure?

Or do you meditate on what is false, base, wrong and unclean?

That is the contrast presented for us and “Paul’s Prescription Pill” is the right choice.

That’s good heart medicine!

Or perhaps I can say it this way: That’s ‘Guard Your Heart’ medicine!