Today on Bible Wonders, I am going to take a look at Proverbs 4 23 through the end of the chapter, as it seems like it all goes together when you look at it in context, and I think it's extremely helpful in the days that we are living in. Proverbs 4 23, you're probably aware, I hope you are, that it says, Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.
But very cool, it gives you some ways to do that right after that. It says, Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. In other words, don't listen to lies.
Get away from it. It's trying to deceive you. It says, Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you. It's very cool to look at that in Hebrew, and I'll just say that and move on. So, verse 26, Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.
So, that's kind of what we're doing is we're wondering, we're pondering the path that we're to take. It says, Do not turn to the right or the left, and remove your foot from evil. So, here's some instruction from a very wise man, Solomon, on how to guard our hearts. Because as we fall into somebody's evil scheme, that wounds our heart.
Or if we believe they're lies, again, you're agreeing with the enemy because those things are lies. Or if you choose an evil path, your heart gets caught up in that. And so, Solomon here is trying his best to give you some really wonderful advice on how not to get entangled. And so, when it says keep your heart right there, I think the word there is kind of critical to the whole idea of how to guard our hearts. So, I look at that in Hebrew, and of course, I've got this in the notes of the podcast. So, the word is natser, which has to do, again, with faith.
That nen sound is a nun, and it has to do with faith. It has to do with a seed. So, you've got something that, you know, if you think about a seed, it's pretty tender right there in the ground. And then, interestingly, the next letter is a zadik, which I love that letter because it's like a tree that's reaching for the light. So, you've got this little seed that's reaching for the light, and then there's a reish, which means the head of something. Or in this case, you know, taking charge of making sure that your faith looks towards the light. So, if you're just looking at light, you're actually keeping your heart. So, what we see later is all the things that would take you down dark paths, specifically perverse speech.
So, when you know you're listening to news, say, for example, and you know it's full of lies, wow, I mean, it's pretty hard to protect your heart. So, again, where can we find all the light that we possibly, where can we find all the zadik that we want to find? It's in the Word of God. So, take our faith, that gentle seed, have it look towards the light, and use that as the head of how to protect our hearts.
Pray with me that we will guard and keep our hearts. Do we have to render? Do we have to render? I do. I do.
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