What Determines Your Boundaries?

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“Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.� Proverbs 4:23 Amplified

I wanted to share a bit of light on a familiar passage to most of us. Solomon is urging us to guard our heart above everything else that we may guard. It is to be the most guarded thing in our life. The reason given has to do with springs or issues of life.

The word translated “springs� is also translated “issues� and refers to the place where a river would empty or issue into the sea for example. Over and over again in the Old Testament we find this word used in the context of determining borders or boundaries. While I grasp that our heart affects every area of life, I now have another perspective on why it is so important to guard our heart above anything we guard. Here it is…

What comes out of our heart determines our boundaries. Remember Jabez asking to have his boundaries expanded? He wanted more territory. Well it seems to me that our boundaries are in part determined by what we let in and out of our heart. What issues out of our heart is first of all our words and secondarily our actions. The combination of the two defines our boundaries. Just wanted to pass that on today. It’s worth thinking about.

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