Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 2, 2007 11:01:30 GMT -5
August 10, 2006
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Matt. 15:19).
Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You (Ps. 119:11).
There is an old saying: “Garbage in, garbage out,” and another one that declares, “You are what you eat.” We know these are truths that apply to our physical bodies, in that we can’t eat donuts and ice cream all day and expect to be healthy. But the truth of those sayings goes far beyond our physical beings. Oswald Chambers referred to the heart as the “birthplace of words.” As people who spend our lives arranging words on paper, therefore, it behooves us to consider what we put into our hearts before allowing our words to be recorded for others to read.
As believers, most of us don’t knowingly feed garbage into our hearts, but we live in a world that thrives on garbage, though much of it is masqueraded as “art,” in one form or another. We are therefore inundated with that garbage on a daily basis, and it takes a concerted effort to keep from ingesting at least some of it.
Proverbs 4:23 tells us of the importance of making that concerted effort: “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” God has called us to speak/write words of life to a dying world—a world that subsists on garbage because it knows nothing else. The only way we can effectively do that is to be sure we faithfully and continually feed into our hearts the life-giving Word of God so that in turn those words of life will flow from our hearts each time we write or speak. There is no other way to guard the birthplace of words—our hearts—from ingesting the garbage of a corrupt world than to fill it with God’s Word. Only then can the “wellspring of life” operate as God has purposed.
(C) KATHI MACIAS
www.kathimacias.com
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Matt. 15:19).
Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You (Ps. 119:11).
There is an old saying: “Garbage in, garbage out,” and another one that declares, “You are what you eat.” We know these are truths that apply to our physical bodies, in that we can’t eat donuts and ice cream all day and expect to be healthy. But the truth of those sayings goes far beyond our physical beings. Oswald Chambers referred to the heart as the “birthplace of words.” As people who spend our lives arranging words on paper, therefore, it behooves us to consider what we put into our hearts before allowing our words to be recorded for others to read.
As believers, most of us don’t knowingly feed garbage into our hearts, but we live in a world that thrives on garbage, though much of it is masqueraded as “art,” in one form or another. We are therefore inundated with that garbage on a daily basis, and it takes a concerted effort to keep from ingesting at least some of it.
Proverbs 4:23 tells us of the importance of making that concerted effort: “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” God has called us to speak/write words of life to a dying world—a world that subsists on garbage because it knows nothing else. The only way we can effectively do that is to be sure we faithfully and continually feed into our hearts the life-giving Word of God so that in turn those words of life will flow from our hearts each time we write or speak. There is no other way to guard the birthplace of words—our hearts—from ingesting the garbage of a corrupt world than to fill it with God’s Word. Only then can the “wellspring of life” operate as God has purposed.
(C) KATHI MACIAS
www.kathimacias.com