Proverbs 4:23 CSB "Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life."
ABOVE ALL ELSE is literally more than all guarding. To guard something is to make sure that it does not get away and that it is safe from attack. In Hebrew the heart is the location of knowledge and also the preconscious source of decisions. Your heart is who you are, the TRUE YOU that directs all your thoughts and emotions.
You can educate your heart (Proverbs 24:32 "I saw, and took it to heart; I looked, and received instructions") consciously form an modify a worldview - after which decisions and actions flow from it.
This education can be worldly, carried out by yourself, or godly, carried out by the Holy Spirit. The inclinations of your heart directs your mortal life and determines which you enter eternal life.
We have to protect this heart of ours. Educate it to be Godly. Fill it with the word of God. As Luke 6:45 says "A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart. And evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. This will help you stay on the right & straight path.
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