{"id":1035,"date":"2010-11-04T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dadcents.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2010-11-04T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:45:24","slug":"11-4-2010-proverbs-423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/2010\/11\/11-4-2010-proverbs-423\/","title":{"rendered":"11.4.2010 Proverbs 4:23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proverbs Post #13-\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Today I was reading in chapter 4, nurse<\/a> and verse 23 spoke to me today.\u00a0 It says:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a04:23<\/strong> Guard your heart with all vigilance, seek<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

for from it are the sources of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Guard your heart with all vigilance” is a powerful admonition to us.\u00a0 As I studied this verse the footnotes suggested guard was similar to a prison guard type watchfulness!\u00a0 Those words are not just a suggestion but a warning.\u00a0 I thought of an example, link<\/a> and being a dad, it involved my daughters.\u00a0 I would not just tell my daughters to look both ways before they cross the road but actually going and carrying them across the road.\u00a0 This is not just a casual, “Hey, be on your toes” type comment.\u00a0 We need to be on watch like a prison guard who is literally ready for a potential attack every second, prepared for the unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n

“For from it are the sources of life” is a little confusing at first glance.\u00a0 But the meaning is that our heart is the “starting point” of us.\u00a0 In other words, what is in our heart will flow from us!\u00a0 If we fill our heart with earthly desires then we will try to fill that void with earthly treasure (cars, homes, money, people).\u00a0 If we fill our heart with God then He will fill that void.<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you guarding your heart?<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to challenge you to take up reading the Proverb of the day and the entire chapter as well.\u00a0 Lord, please help each one of us to keep our focus on things above and not the things of this earth.\u00a0 Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am using the Net Bible<\/a> to quote from for these posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proverbs Post #13- \u00a0Today I was reading in chapter 4, nurse and verse 23 spoke to me today.\u00a0 It says: \u00a04:23 Guard your heart with all vigilance, seek for from it are the sources of life. “Guard your heart with all vigilance” is a powerful admonition to us.\u00a0 As I studied this verse the footnotes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[55,53,54],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs-2","tag-guard","tag-heart","tag-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}