Guard Your Heart

Guard your heart. "If you love Me, keep My commandments, and My commandments are not grievous." Every act of obedience increases the depth of your love. As your love for Him increases, acts of obedience become more and more supernaturally natural. Obey. Love deepens. Obedience grows. Love deepens. Obedience grows, Love . . . You get the principle, right?

Conversely, every act of disobedience is a step into the darkness away from the light of His fellowship and the sense of His loving presence. Thus, disobedience becomes more spontaneous. As if our flesh needs much encouragement to act selfishly. The truth to remember is that wickedness takes over a person's life gradually. Like a moth in the back of the closet slowly eating a hole in your favorite sweater. Or the slow graying of a persons' hair. Almost imperceptibly sin enchains us. So, be sensitive to the small things. Guard your heart. 

Every act of obedience is an act of--evidence of--your love for Him. Every act of disobedience is an act of--evidence of--your love for yourself. No act is insignificant then, is it? No act is "no big deal." The direction of your life is inexorably tied to every choice. Guard your heart.