Protecting your heart is both good and necessary. It has exponential benefits when done the right way. What's the right way? Well, to begin with, you must understand that guarding your heart does not start and stop at the entryway. After you have granted someone/something access, there's still more to do.
Wise is the soul that carefully monitors the activity happening on the inside to be sure that illegal access wasn't given.
Let's consider a corporate building. The moment you arrive, you are subject to a security check point before you are allowed to go to your designated location. That doesn't mean that you're a threat; it just means that necessary steps are being taken to ensure that you have a right to be there and you're not a risk to the security of the building or its occupants. Yet, it doesn't stop there. Do you think that just because someone makes it pass the security booth, that means they are no longer under surveillance? Absolutely not. In fact, in most cases, the surveillance is more thorough beyond the entrance--as it should be. Why? People are capable of pretending well enough to "look the part" to win the access needed to accomplish their ulterior motives. Deception has a longstanding reputation of getting people into places (hearts) they're no good for.
We have to treat our hearts with the same type of surveillance that's found at a corporate building. It's not enough to only check things (people, emotions, thoughts) at the door; we must closely monitor the activity that is going on. What are they doing? Is their access an advantage or disadvantage? Has their motives changed for the worst since being let it? What's become of your life since you granted them entry? Whatever is on the inside of you is the paint your heart uses with every stroke that touches the canvas of your life. If hate is on the inside, the heart can't paint love. If no good people are on the inside, the heart can't paint a life that reflects healthy connections.
To this end, the 2 effective steps to make sure that you heart is always guarded are:
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To this end, the 2 effective steps to make sure that you heart is always guarded are:
1. Thoroughly check to see if "it" is safe to let in.
2. Constantly evaluate to see if "it" is safe to enough to remain.This is my last point and I'll let you go: guard your heart with wisdom, not walls. If walls are surrounding your heart, nothing that belongs can enter and anything that doesn't belong can't exit.
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