Date: Sunday, 4th February, 2024
Text: Proverbs 4:23-25
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Today’s text says, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you. “
It is very important to guard the gates that lead to the heart, namely the eye, the ear, taste and touch. If you spend your time listening to ungodly music or watching unedifying content on social media, you are setting up the wrong atmosphere for sin. You must deliberately censor what goes to your heart to avoid pollution.
If you ask Job, how he was able to conquer fornication and adultery, his reply would be, “I made a covenant with my eyes, not to look lustfully at a young woman.” Job 31:1. It was his personal decision and a way of disciplining himself.
Invest time and energy on spiritually edifying resource materials and programs that would boost your faith, hope and love for God.
Be deliberate in choosing your circle of friends. If you are a married woman and your closest friends are divorcees; it is only a matter of time and you will become one of them.
If you live to satisfy your sinful self, the harvest you will get from that will be eternal death. But if you live to please the Spirit, your harvest from the Spirit will be eternal life. Galatians 6:8
Action Point: Abstain from every appearance of evil and guard your heart diligently.