Goin' Steady – Taking Yourself Out of Circulation!
“WATCH OVER YOUR HEART WITH ALL DILIGENCE, FOR FROM IT FLOW THE SPRINGS OF LIFE.” Proverbs 4:23 (NAS)
The Hebrew word for watch is natsar. It is the idea of guarding or protecting
the affections of your heart. In Prov.4: 23, it's a command (kal
imperative).
Answer to the following questions taken from Proverbs 4:23 and John 4.
What are you commanded to watch over?
How are you told to watch over the affections of your heart?
What is the divine reason given for guarding the affections of your heart?
Jesus used this biblical concept with a woman who had become discouraged with love relationships but didn’t understand why. It is recorded in John 4:1-18. This is a story about a woman who had failed to guard the affections of her heart in love relationships and the mess that it created in her life.
“But whoever drinks the water I give him will NEVER thirst.” (John 4:14)
What area of this woman’s life that she was thirsting and needed a SPRING OF LIFE in? (John 4:18)
What do you think this water was that Jesus could give that would become a SPRING OF WATER welling up to eternal life?
What was the thirsty area in this woman’s soul? Jesus was telling her that He could satisfy all the thirsty areas of her life.
Do you have a thirsty or unfulfilled area of your life? (For the answer, read John 7:37-39)
“ABOVE ALL ELSE, GUARD YOUR HEART FOR IT IS THE WELLSPRING OF LIFE.”
Are you feeling conflict in your heart over a similar issue?