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February 2

Keep Your Heart Pumping!

May the love cause your hearts to be strengthened, to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his people. Amen.

—1 Thessalonians 3:13

We talk about how to keep our hearts healthy, at least in the physical sense. We recognize the sadness of heart disease as it destroys people's lives. As true as it is in our physical nature, it's also true in the spiritual sense. What are we doing to avoid spiritual heart disease? What are we doing to strengthen our hearts on a daily basis?

The heart muscle pumps as long as it can no matter how we take care of it. The problem comes in when we neglect it for too long, when we eat all the wrong things and never exercise, or when we act as though what we do has no consequence. The truth is what we do matters, especially in matters of the heart.

That heart-thumping evangelist Jonathan Edwards said this: "See that your chief study be about your heart: that there God's image may be planted; that there His interests be advanced . . . that there the love of holiness grows."

The heart has a big job to do. Today and every day, check in with your spirit and make sure your heart is being nourished. Ask God to keep your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. That way, you'll always have a healthy heart.

In the Flow

Whatever else I do today, Lord, help me be aware of my heart. Protect it, shape it, and strengthen it according to your will and purpose. I thank you for loving me so much. Amen.