Heart Monitor

La Primera Iglesia Bautista Libre de Weslaco is building from within! A young couple from our church gave birth to their first son, Kristian Obregon Monday. Next week another young couple from our church will have their second child. I'll try to get pictures up when they present their babies before the church.
Kristian was born at 32 weeks, which while not terribly premature was still earlier than the doctors would like. He was immediately whisked out of the birthing room to NICU. They gave him oxygen for the first day, but decided he didn't need it by today. They are just observing him to make sure he can maintain his temperature, but by all accounts he seems to be doing well. He weighed 4 lb. 10.9 oz and was 16.7 inches long.
He gave the doctors quite a scare yesterday. They had him hooked up to all kinds of monitors to make sure all was well. Suddenly the alarmed sound that it had lost his heartbeat. They fell into quite a scurry to reach his bed with fears of the worst. However, upon arriving they discovered that he had removed his heart monitor patch and was swinging it around in his tiny little hand. I told his parents to get ready, he's going to be a handful!
This set me to thinking. That baby gave no thought to what he was doing or how important it was to monitor his heart. He just happened to get it caught on his hand. How many christians walk through life without ever giving a thought to how important it is to monitor our hearts?
The Bible tells us that our heart is deceitful, it further says that the Bible is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of our heart. We have a spiritual life that is wrapped up in a physical body, so that the christian is always pulled in two directions, the world and heaven. Would to God that we continue to monitor our hearts!