Hello Bloggers:
There may not be any one way to guard your heart. But, I have cultivated a few methods over years of mistakes. One way I now guard my heart is by listening for God’s voice and following through on His directives. But, in order to listen to God, we have to recognize or know His voice when He is speaking to you in your situation about your situation. Just as important, is being able to interpret his silence(another hard lesson learned...). Listening to God requires discipline and self-restraint to ignore all the other messages filtering in about what your life should be and where you should be in your life. Unless messages are filtered to you by the conduit of the Holy Spirit, the information being sent to your brain is potentially poison to your spirit. The irony is that God’s messages are as clear as the ungodly messages. We have only to stop and listen to hear His voice.
Several years ago, I was returning home from a familiar place. For some reason, I took a wrong turn, and I could not find my way back to the main road. Earlier that week, I had asked God what stood between me and a healthy relationship. I continued to ponder the question as I tried to find my way home that night. I turned to the left, and found myself at a dead end street. I stopped the car to figure out where I first went wrong. While I was sitting in my car totally lost, I heard God say to my spirit: "You must die to your desire for a particular man so that I can raise up the man I have for you."
Wow! In that one moment, I got two answers...at least. First, I now knew that focusing on a particular person of my choosing (whoever happened to be in my space at the time) was the roadblock to a healthy, nurturing relationship. At the same moment, I turned my car around, immediately discovered a familiar street, and found my way home. I was no longer lost. I had heard God's voice that night, and I found my way home. Well, I got home that night without incident. If only I had listened to what God was telling me about my relationship choices, I may have gotten to the healthy, nurturing relationship sooner.
Let me know if you have a similar situation in which God was clearly telling you something. I am interested in hearing the results whether you followed through on his instruction, or if you made other choices. You can send your reply to wellspring423@aol.com.
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