Jeremiah 4:14 (NIV) O Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?
Matthew 9:4 (NIV) Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?
Matthew 15:19 (NIV) For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
We must be careful what we bury in our heart. To bury something does not mean it is dead. It may simply mean we have buried something alive that will devour and destroy us from within. —Maxie Dunnam
Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "BURDENS".
