Follow the Leader

So, thanks to a Mishap involving the Spygame, I havn't been able to access my blog or me Gmail for the last couple weeks! Frustrating!

I found a passage yesterday that really spoke to me...

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.
~Jeremiah 17:9-10

I am learning the art of not "Following my heart", as so many are prone to tell me, but leading my heart. I examine myself. I see the Love, compassion, caring, and goodness, and I nurture it. I see the Poisons of Criticism, Pain, Jealousy, Anger, and Bitterness, and I begin flushing them from my system. I try to take Paul's advice...

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
~Romans 12:1-2

I work at Leading my heart, and renewing my mind. By doing thus, I will better be able to hear, interpret, and understand God's will for my life.