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Proverbs chapter 4 verse 23

keep your heart with all vigilance.

For from it flow the springs of life.

What a simple command!

What a significant command that we must heed. Keep your heart with all vigilance. We've got to

guard our hearts, our affections, our minds, attention, our hearts longing, what we focus on.

There's a reason why when Jesus has asked what's the first and greatest commandment and his reply is

love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength

that this is the spring from which everything in our lives flow and we are so

tempted every day to give our hearts to things in this world in ways that pull us away from God in ways that

taint the purity of our hearts before God, the wholehearted nature of how we're intended to love

him.

And where we place our affections and where we fix our minds is going to direct everything in our lives.

So God help us, we pray, to fix our affections on you.

To not give our hearts a way to things to people in a way that

pulls us from wholehearted love for you.

Help us to love you with all our hearts, soul, mind, and strength

in a way that then frees us to love other people

as we do ourselves in a way that frees us to love other people rightly and to live in righteousness because we're seeking you with all of our hearts.

God help us to guard our hearts.

Help us not to be casual with where we place our affections.

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