Guard Your Heart
Protecting your inner life.
Tending what shapes you.
The big idea
What you let into your heart eventually comes out in your life.
What does “Guard Your Heart” walk through?
As One Thinks
Proverbs 23:7 · KJV
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
In plain English
What you think in your heart shapes who you become.
You Become Your Thoughts
Your inner thoughts shape who you become. Mind what you let in.
Dwell on Good
Philippians 4:8 · KJV
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just... think on these things.
In plain English
Fill your mind with what's true, honest, just, pure, lovely. Don't dwell on the rest.
Choose the Input
You can't always stop a thought from coming, but you can choose what you dwell on.
Pray
Lord, guard my heart. Help me dwell on what's good and true. Amen.
Write it down
What input do you need to guard your heart from?
You finished: Guard Your Heart
Everything flows from the heart. Tend it carefully.
Which passages does this journey use?
2 passages, drawn from Proverbs 23:7, Philippians 4:8. Every verse appears here in the King James text with a plain-English line beside it, so you can read it without a commentary open. Allow about 5 minutes for the whole thing, or 5 short sittings.
- Proverbs 23:7
- Philippians 4:8
Read any of these in full on the complete KJV, or look the wording up independently at Blue Letter Bible.
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