What are you hiding in your heart?
Psalm 119:10-12 (NIV)
I seek You with all my heart; do not let me stray from Your commands. I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
The heart is a very important place in your life, because it is in the heart that we all have the potential to store and hide stuff. As with so many things this can be a negative or positive reality, depending on what each person is choosing to store or hide within theirs.
The writer declares that he has hidden God's word in his heart. Let's face it, there can be no better thing to both store and hide in your heart than the living word of God!
What's stored in your heart will eventually be heard on your lips and manifested in your life. Your heart is like the cistern of a toilet: when your life gets 'flushed' by the hand of circumstance or situation, what is in the heart comes out – often shocking or blessing those who may be watching at that moment.
Make sure today that you are storing God's word in your heart; as it says in Colossians, "let it dwell in you richly" (Colossians 3:16). Then, whenever you need wisdom or truth you will have a ready supply within your life. Just remember, we all have the potential to store and hide other stuff, so be honest with yourself and make sure you are not. Hey, if you need to have a good spring clean of the wardrobe or pantry of the heart, go ahead and do it. Let's not make our heart store what does not do it good – things like bitterness, unforgivness and envy can be easily hidden in the cloisters of your heart and remain unseen by others for years, but believe me those things, and others like them, are toxic and will do your heart no good at all. In fact they will slowly rot your heart, affecting even everything good that is sharing the storage area.
As the writer knew, when we hide His word in our hearts it will keep us from sinning too. Why? Because we always live out of what we have stored in it – desires, ambitions and dreams are all birthed from what we allow to remain and hide in our heart. Every sin that we can commit, small or large, starts as an undealt-with seed-like thought in the mind that is then allowed to be stored and germinated in the heart. If you don't want a tree of sin in your life don't let its seedling grow in your heart. Rather, pack that heart with God's word and go ahead and watch what grows.
Bless ya,
Andy
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