Protect Your Heart

Everything that finally decides the course of our lives proceeds from our hearts. True Biblical Faith proceeds from the heart and determines the way we live. It is not a mere intellectual concept, entertained by the mind, it is a real, active force at work in the heart. However, God does not leave the mind without its Proper Provision. Faith at work in the heart produces hope in the mind. Faith in the heart is the substance, the underlying reality.

This provides a valid, Scriptural basis for the hope that we entertain in our minds. In 1 Thessalonians 5:8, Paul mentioned the different areas of our personalities that are affected by Faith and those that are affected by hope. “But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation”. 1Thessalonians 5:8.

Here we see that Faith and Love are the breastplate, and the breastplate protects the heart. Hope is the helmet and it protects the head, or the mind. In distinguishing Faith from hope, I do not mean to belittle hope. Hope in the Biblical Sense, is a confident expectation of good, a steady, persistent optimism. Hope protects our minds. Every Christian should wear this helmet of hope 24 hours a day.