The girl I want to be....Part 2

I've been thinking a lot about guarding my heart.  Infact, today I was considering the verse, "Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life."  I couldn't remember the exact reference so I searched Bible Gateway's website only to discover "No Matches."  I, then, searched "heart" and Proverbs 4:23 popped-up which just so happens to be verse I apparently paraphrased.  :)  It reads... 

Keep thy heart

with all diligence;

for out of it are the issues of life. 

Keep...guard, protect.  I thought about those guards at Buckingham Palace. 

Their one job is to protect AT ALL COSTS the palace.  God wants me to protect my heart with that same intensity.  [Thankfully, He has not called me to life of a Palace guard.  Those hats!!!  Talk about hat hair!!!]

According to Dictionary.com - Keep means to persist in; be steadfast.  What a perfect description of how God wants me to guard my heart.

Pastor preached on our heart and defined our heart as our emotions, feelings, innermostself (I'm pretty sure that's a word).  When I am not guarding my heart, I am prone to attack.  The Devil knows this and he is on the lookout as a roaring lion (the Bible says).  He wants to devour me and my desire to serve the Lord.  He wants me to doubt God's perfect plan.  He wants me to settle into a life of complacency...so that others won't see Christ.  Settling is not trusting.  [It's funny - not in a LOL way, but in a wonderful blessing-ish sort of way - when I struggle with settling, the Lord puts little reminders in my life...a text from a friend, a note of encouragement, a random phone call from a friend, a radio broadcast, songs reminding me of God's amazing love & His amazing plan!]

I want Psalm 27:14 to resound in my heart and be on my mind at all times... 

Wait on the Lord: 

be of good courage,

and He shall strengthen

thine heart:  wait, I say, on the Lord.