# Keep Thy Heart With All Diligence

Proverbs 4:23

Language: en  
Author: Written by Sarah Raber  
Salesville, Ohio  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, July/August 2002, Number 4  
Source pages: 24  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/keep-thy-heart-with-all-diligence/>
Original PDF: 2002\-07\-remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, July/August 2002](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2002-07/>)

![A uniformed soldier carrying a rifle with a bayonet\.](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/bb70a7bb-68b1-4cdd-b85a-f732afefeaa2-1.png>)

![A heart with a closed door in its center\.](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/bb70a7bb-68b1-4cdd-b85a-f732afefeaa2-2.png>)

**My friend, the choices that you make,  
The many things you do…  
Decisions, though they may seem small,  
End up defining you\.**

**The books you read, the things you buy,  
The places that you go…  
You face decisions every day;  
You answer “yes” or “no\.”**

**Each choice you make is like a seed;  
That seed will surely grow;  
For what you plant within your heart  
Takes root within your soul\.**

**That angry word when caught off guard—  
An accident?—Oh no\!  
It just exposed the heart’s true state,  
Laid out for all to know\.**

**“But, that’s not really me,” you say\.  
Oh no? Then may I ask,  
Where did it come from—truly, friend—  
If not behind the mask?**

**Can words or thoughts or actions come  
From where they’ve never been?  
For what goes in comes surely out;  
This is a proven thing\.**

**The secret pleasures you delight in,  
On which your spirit feeds,  
Those things which occupy your thoughts  
Will soon show forth in deeds\.**

**What you will do when no one sees  
Is who you really are;  
And like a mirror actions will  
Reflect the state of heart\.**

**You make a choice—that choice makes you—  
A law of life that stands\.  
So think about each choice, my friend,  
When you are making plans\.**

**And so that heart of yours, beware,  
And diligently keep\.  
For issues that pertain to life  
Will flow from out of it\!**