Jesus had just talked about a house protected by a strong man and that it was secure. Then this paragraph takes up the opposite theme. What a about a house that is unprotected? What about a heart that is not watched? What happens to a person's soul if the person is not vigilant?
Life often seems to be a problem market, i.e., we exchange one situation with its set of problems for another. The issue in this case is that the second or last set of problems is by far worse than the first. What a shame to go to the trouble of cleaning the heart only to have a worse condition in the end.
It makes me wonder how protective am I of my heart? After working to clean out bad habits and sinful conditions, have I occupied the heart and cared for it in such a way that it is protected? Does Satan look at my heart as occupied by a strong man or empty? Truly, good is not the absence of evil; good is proactive but an evil condition is the absence of good.
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