Romans 9-12 / Challenge

Day 14: One of the most important things you should learn on your Love Dare Journey is that you should not just follow your heart. You should..you MUST lead it. You don't let your feelings and emotions do the driving. You put them in the back seat and tell them where you're going.

That concept at the beginning of the book intrigued me. I always thot following my heart would be best.....but it hasn't been. I guard my heart more than I should....in pretty much every relationship. I could lay out the reasons why.. but even in my head this morning they are lame...I am not finding anywhere promises of no pain, of not being hurt....on the contrary a life in Christ seems to lay out there, how much pain there will be....BUT the promise of Your comfort... that now is becoming very attractive and real....so I have no excuse to protect or guard my heart and that's scary. To think of leading my heart directly into situations where there is the potential for failure and pain...when I have avoided both most of my life...sounds counterintuitive and crazy....and exactly what and where He calls me.....and you...

Romans 12: 1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

So I am not a detail person.... could I do something needing attention to detail??? Can you?