Keeping the Heart In Time of Adversity, by John Flavel. An Excerpt.
Channel: Take Up The Cross
Date: 04/02/2018

Keeping the Heart In Time of Adversity, by John Flavel. An Excerpt.

Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak. ~ Mark 14:38

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. ~ Proverbs 22:5

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. ~ Proverbs 28:26

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; ~ Deuteronomy 4:9

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; ~ Hebrews 12:15

Keep thyself pure. ~ 1 Timothy 5:22c

To keep himself unspotted from the world. ~ James 1:27c

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. ~ 1 John 5:18

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
~ Proverbs 4:23

"2. Having composed your heart by previous meditation, immediately set a guard upon your  senses.  How  often  are  Christians  in  danger  of  losing  the  eyes  of  their  mind  by those of their body! Against this David prayed, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity,  and  quicken  thou  me  in  thy  way."  This  may  serve  to  expound  the  Arabian proverb:  "Shut  the  windows  that  the  house  may  be  light."  It  were  well  if  you  could say  in  the  commencement,  as  a  holy  man  once  said  when  he  came  from  the performance  of  duty:  "Be  shut,  O  my  eyes,  be  shut;  for  it  is  impossible  that  you should  ever  discern  such  beauty  and  glory  in  any  creature  as  I  have  now  seen  in God."  You  must  avoid  all  occasions  of  distraction  from  without,  and  imbibe  that intenseness of spirit in the work of God which locks up the eye and ear against vanity."

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