Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Your Personal Homeland Security - #8334

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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Homeland security: that’s two words that have become part of our everyday vocabulary since the attacks of September 11. It’s all about taking extraordinary measures to protect potential terrorist targets: transportation, communications, our water supplies. Wait a minute! Think about that last one for a minute. The water for millions of people can come from the same reservoir system. Poison the reservoir and you can infect a lot of lives. That’s why we, of course, have to guard the reservoir.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and that’s the kind of homeland security that we all need to be concerned about…protecting the source of our thoughts and our attitudes. God talks about it in the Book of Proverbs when He says: “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life” (Proverbs 4:23 ). The wellspring, the reservoir from which everything else flows into your life. Guard it! Be careful what you let into your heart!

So many life mistakes and regrets can be traced back to a thought, or an idea, or an attitude that we let creep into our reservoir. So guard your affections, guard who you let have a place in your heart; guard what you watch and listen to. You cannot afford to let in anything that feeds your dark side. Don’t let negativity, backbiting, or gossip into your heart.

Stop anything dirty or suggestive from poisoning your source. There’s no one, there’s nothing that is so interesting, so amusing, so attractive that it’s worth unleashing poison in your soul. Guard your heart!

This radio program references: Proverbs 4:23