Issues of Life

Ken

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:23 KJV). In other words, everything you do flows from your heart. Let God’s Spirit continually remind us to guard our heart, because absolutely everything starts in our heart. If I was the CEO of a failing company, I would cut expenses everywhere I could without simply killing the company. I would stop the slightest, unnecessary trickle of cash from flowing out of the company, if I wanted to survive. And, I would be looking for ways to keep cash flowing in. Christ is the secret of all spiritual life flowing into us. The Holy Spirit reveals Christ to us in all His names, capacities, and relationships, because He is our very life (John 14:6). Somehow, the doctrine and Scripture, where Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6), has to mean just that, as life would mean to a drowning man, or we are merely “saying our prayers” and waiting for religion to apply to someone else, generally the next lost sinner to “get saved” and find religion. May the Spirit of God reveal Jesus to our heart. “That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death” (Philippians 3:10). Spirit of God, strip away everything until it is only myself clinging to Jesus for “all things that pertain unto life and godliness” (2Peter 1:3). Amen.