How To Protect Your Heart!
"Above all else, guard your heart, for
everything you do flows from it."
Proverbs 4: 23
Most law enforcement personnel today wear
bulletproof vests while on duty. While these
vests are made of synthetic material, in many
combat situations soldiers have the vests with
metal or ceramic plates covering their chests.
Why emphasis on protecting the chest from
fatal gunfire? Because a wound to the chest
results in a wound to the heart. And a wound
to the heart rarely
survives.
The leather breastplate of the Roman soldier in
Paul’s day has been replaced by today’s bullet
proof vests and the purpose is the same. How
are we, as sinners, able to protect our heart
from Satan’s accusations of
sinfulness?
By relying not on our righteousness but on the
righteousness of Christ who never sinned: “For
God made Christ who knew no sin to be sin for
us, that we might become the righteousness
of God in Him” (2
Corinthians 5:21).
Protect your heart by depending
on Christ’s righteousness rather
than your own.
"My hope is built on nothing
less than Jesus’ blood
and
righteousness."
Edward Mote