KEEP YOUR HEART DILIGENTLY
The Word of God has never proved to be a waste in any issue of life. In fact and in truth, every word in the pages of the Bible addresses every area and issue of living life. The Word of God cannot be broken. The Word of God is true to perform and to perfect according to His promises. Jesus is the Living Word of God and He came stating, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.” (John 10:10) The abundant life was brought to life as a gift by Jesus for man. However, man must know to keep his heart with all diligence in order to fully possess living life abundantly. The book of Proverbs 4:23 buttressed, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Those that know to keep heart with all diligence wholly trust in God for His promises that never fail. Those that know to keep heart with all diligence establish the promises of God in their heart before it actually physically manifests. Trusting in God is not rushing to receive but rather resting on the promises of God that never fail. Trusting God in the absence of something can be challenging. Also trusting God when time is absolutely not on our side can be exhausting. Trusting on God for a way where there is no way can be exceedingly stressful, but it is trust when we remain strengthened by His word.
However, in going the wilderness of life, the only way out to the expected end is rooted in trusting God to show up at every juncture where there is no sign for survival. Caleb and Joshua were the only survivors among thousands of the children of Israel that left Egypt for the Promised Land. Caleb and Joshua survived because they saw hope where there was no hope. They both remembered the Lord’s doing and trusted in what the Lord was capable of doing. Caleb and Joshua trusted God enough and took an odd stand among their brethren who failed to trust in God’s promise. Caleb by virtue of his trust in God’s promise stated, “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.” (Joshua 14:7) Evidently, it cannot be confused that trust is heart activated and mouth driven. Trust is not just a thing of the mouth, but it is also from the heart. If it is not rooted in the heart, it will not stand in the physical, no matter how loud or consistent is being communicated. Unlike Caleb and Joshua, the people who went to spy the land failed to trust because their heart was not diligently kept.
Caleb testified, “Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.” (Joshua 14:8)Clearly, the Word of Joshua 14:7-8 pointed out the importance of keeping our hearts with all diligence. A Heart that is well kept will not fumble into negative confession when addressing the issues of life. A Heart that is well kept will diligently see into the promises of God while they are yet to be manifested in the physical. A Heart that is kept diligently will receive the promises when no negative confession is made. A Heart that is kept diligently is the heart that wholly follows through with God; it is the heart that operates in a different spirit, a spirit like that of Joshua and Caleb. A failure to keep the heart diligently is a passage to missing out in what God promised. Those that went to spy in the Promised Land with Joshua and Caleb made the heart of the people melt. (Joshua 14:8) A melted heart misses out on the promises of God. A melted heart is the evidence of not keeping the heart with all diligence. The heart of the Israelites was not kept with diligence when it melted as a result of the spies’ negative report. By virtue of their melted heart the issue of life became terminated on their behalf.
Trust only in God and not in man. Trust only in God and His promises. Trust only in God and not in what people consider as majority. The majority failed to trust God for His promises because of what they saw on the ground and not because of what was spoken from above to all who were on ground. Joshua and Caleb refused to flow with the majority but with what was spoken from above because their hearts were diligent. As a result of their diligent heart , they entered into the promise of God. Have you received any promise in the Word of God? Keep your heart diligently and it will address the issues of your life.
Trust will not only deliver needs, but it will also bring preservation into the life of one that trusts God for His word. Caleb’s trust in God made God to keep him and he testified, “And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.” (Joshua 14:10) There is no other way out to the expected end but only in trusting in God. Until trusting God graduates from one’s mouth to the heart, one is only operating in one’s own understanding.
FAITH CAPSULE:
A failure to keep the heart diligently is a passage to miss God’s promise.