All we ever needed to do

Hands up if you've seen Vanessa post this message more than a few times already, " Guard your heart"? *hands up*

I never quite fully grasp the understanding of it, i mean it makes sense, but it's just not close to my heart. But after today, Pastor Phil preached, I realised that sentence really determines the life that you live.

Pst Phil said two meaningful descriptions about your heart.

1. If your heart goes wrong, your whole life goes wrong.

Which is true becos how many times, when faced with a decision in life, we know the correct thing to do in our head, but our heart tells us something else. Something illogical, something that just "feels" right.. And this feeling we have is subjected to the condition of our heart. So when people always tell us, to follow your heart, it can be a very dangerous statement, cos we do not know the condition of one's heart.

If you've guard your heart, and when push comes to shove, your mind tells you it's not gonna work, but your heart tells you, trust in the Lord. That's the correct example of following your heart.

If your heart is full of bitterness, it could be totally opposite results becos then your mind tells you the right thing is to trust the Lord, but, in your heart, you dun trust God cos he let you down in some way or another. Wrong example of following your heart.

2. When the heart goes sour, we lose our vision.

When we become so cynical about things, and we start complaining, we lose sight of what God has prepared for us, the solution. We all expect God's grace and mercy to be like some smooth sailing path in life, but more often than not, God's grace and mercy is shown when we are in the roughest patch in our life.

And sometimes, we lose our way, we become dissatisfied. We think, does God really love us? Why does he allow me to go through such a hardship? Where is He when i need Him the most? And we start being cynical and start complaining, that we tend to focus on the problem only. But what we dun see is that God already has the solution, it's on its way, but we dun see it becos we cant be still and wait for it, but instead focus on all the complaints we have.

Yes, in case you dunno now, God always takes a long time to do things suddenly. He waits for Moses to lead the children of Israel to be sandwiched between the soldiers and the sea before He splits the red sea. He waits for Abraham to bring his son all the way to the mountain top, holding his knife, prepared to sacrifice his son before He intervenes.

So we have to wait, believe, and wait again. Cos God already had the solution even before the problem arised. Guard our hearts and be still and know that He is God. That's all we ever needed to do really.