Proverbs 4:23-27 Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Put away perversity from your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.
Wow as I read this passage I am blown away at how difficult it is to live up to this exhortation. The world's influence is so unbelievable you can't go anywhere without being seemingly hit from every side. That is why practicing the actions of this verse are so important. However apart from God it is impossible to even be able to live up to this. But the Bible makes it clear that with Christ all things are possible and through His strength we can do all things. This is why pursuing God through a relationship is so vital to my life. Erwin Lutzer said, "Only when we are intoxicated with God will be inoculated against the world."
Father give me the desire to know you more and the determination to pursue you and the discipline to daily develop my relationship with you so that the world becomes less and less appealing and the influence of it becomes less and less.
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