The Bible’s view is that our heart and the capacity to choose is at the center of who we are. The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart. Proverbs 4:23 tells us that perhaps the most important thing we can pay attention to in life is what is happening in and with us. Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.ĭo not swerve to the right or to the left turn your foot away from evil.” Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. “ Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” 7:21), obedience, devotion, and intentionality, it represents the total person.
Since the heart is the center for decisions (2 Sam. The request for a pure heart is the desire for a new and more perfect conscience (Psalm 51:10 Matt. The heart also represents the idea of our will and conscience (1 Samuel 24:5 2 Samuel 24:10). The heart understands (Deuteronomy 8:5 Isaiah 42:25), provides wisdom to rule justly and wisely (1 Kings 3:12 10:24), and discerns good and evil (1 Kings 2:44). The heart functions as the source of thought and reflection (Isaiah 6:10 Mark 7:21-23). The heart is seen as the center of emotions, feelings, moods, and passions. In the scriptures, the heart refers most of the time not to a vital organ that is constantly beating and enables us to live. The human heart is mentioned over 800 times in the Bible. It is true that this Friday is also Valentine’s Day, a day to celebrate love for which hearts are on display in many places and consumers spend $18.6 billion dollars on roses and chocolate covered anything – this seemed an appropriate Sunday to talk about our hearts. This coming weekend is a holiday we all know, that’s right, pitchers and catchers report for spring training. Areas in which people are tempted and fall, often to very public embarrassment, haven’t changed much either. The issues people struggled with then are still issues today. The wisdom found in the Book of Proverbs makes it plain that while human civilization has advanced in innumerable ways in areas ranging from science to technology, at the same time, human beings have changed very little in the last several thousand years. Proverbs also speaks repeatedly of what not to do if we wish to avoid ruin, shame, unhappiness and disgrace. Proverbs is the “Do” and “Don’t” book of the Bible it’s filled with admonitions about what to do if we wish to have a life marked by goodness, honor, integrity, confidence and virtue.
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Perhaps no book in the Bible has more practical wisdom and advice about how to think about and live our life on a daily basis than Proverbs.
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