guarding my heart, renewing my mind

The Word of God says, we are to guard our hearts for out of it flows the issues of life." thismorning I am thinking to myself, of course, the Word of God gives out a bigger picture of why we should guard our hearts, because there is a much bigger plan at play. It's an eternal plan, one that has everyone called a child of God involved in and if each time we are hurt or disappointed and we feel down, we must do our best not to feel like a victim. Because once we do, then we are taking ourselves out of the bigger plan. In the Bible it tells of how the early Christians felt joy when they were suffering, they count it joy. Why? we might ask, I believe it's because, they have seen the bigger picture..they saw the eternal in the picture, not the here and now. They have learned the secret to guarding their hearts and renewing their minds. For us now, we must learn this way the early disciples knew, it is something that we must do daily to help us guard our hearts....that way is, reading the Word of God and meditating in it, praying it, before we know it our minds are renewed and we have put up safeguards around our hearts.