Growing Up Types – Protect Your Heart from Hurt

Adult Wisdom -  If you want to get to the heart of a matter you have to first know something about your own heart. Looking at someone else’s heart is a path of never getting to the matter at hand.  According to Nelsons and Unger's Bible Dictionaries "YOUR HEART" is the inner self that thinks, feels, and decides. The heart is also the center of the feelings and affections: of joy; of pain; and all degrees of ill will of dissatisfaction from anxiety to despair; all degrees of fear, from reverential trembling; the center of the moral life; so that all moral conditions, from the highest love of God even down to the self-deifying pride, darkening, and hardening are concentrated in the heart as the innermost life circle of humanity. The heart is the laboratory and origin of all that is good and evil in thoughts, words, and deed; the rendezvous of evil lusts and passions; a good or evil treasure the place where God's natural law is written in us as well as the law of grace; the seat of conscience; the field for the seed of the divine word. It is the dwelling place of Christ in us; of the Holy Spirit; of God's peace; the receptacle of the love of God; the closet of secret communion with God and it is the center of the entire man, the very heart of life's impulse. So you see, it is all about you, never about the other person. You have to protect and guard your own heart, no other person can do that for you. Whatever is in your heart is going to come out of your mouth. Consider making sure that you only allow those things in your heart that you don't mind coming out of your mouth.