Are u really guarding your heart?

This post came or rather the thought I have on heart came after I went for an echogram of my heart. I saw how my heart beats, how the valves flaps, and hear how it sounds so different at different segment. The experience changed my whole perspective on how I view my heart and made aware to me how little focus I have put into it.
Prior to the check up I was afraid of the different beats I was feeling.You can say too that life and death is in the power of your heart beat. No sickness, defect on my body worries me more than my heart. It never did occur to me this until I was going through it.
A cut on a finger, a plaster will suffice. Fever, I could just pop a panadol and go to sleep. If there's a swell, I'll do the necessary treatment. But what would you do if you felt pain in your heart? Would you just pop a pill and go to sleep?
Jesus NEVER says, Above ALL else, guard your fingers...your hands, your head...but guard your heart.
I always saw guarding your heart as not allowing bad influences from the media, friends to come in, not opening it up to people who will take it lightly, to put it simply...keep it in good ground.
But He open my eyes to see this...
Do you ever think of your heart when you get angry? when you spread poisonous rumours of your colleagues, when you speak words of death into a situation...when you stress over your work...
Many times these actions do not produce immediate consequences on your outward circumstances, but it's like a veil slowly covering your heart.
When you get angry, your heart gets angry too...when you harbour unforgiveness, your heart feels it...when you stress, your heart is stress too. But when you choose to do otherwise, you're guarding your heart.
It's interesting what I saw in one of the account of Pharoah plagues.
Exo 9:14

(ESV)


God sees a heart as he sees a person...He plagues the heart/person. Heart=You. Whenever the Lord wants to impart wisdom, understanding, directions...he imparts it to your heart. If you are able to see how important your heart is, you'll do all to make it happy and be watchful of how you live your life. It's funny when the Lord was showing me this, Bob Fits in one of his songs was singing, 'Dancing heart'. That really came as a confirmation to me.
What do you see when you look into your heart today. Is it joyful, disheartened, or you're just not sure...
A good book to see how God prioritize your heart is the book of Proverbs...it even teaches you how you could make it happy=D
Prov 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart (your smile brings life to someones else heart!!)
Prov 17:22 A merry heart does good like a medicine (If you're sick, make your heart happy:))
Just check out the verses on heart in Proverbs and you'll understand what He means when he say 'Above ALL else, guard your heart!'^{For 3588 I589 will at this2063 time6471 send7971 (853) all3605 my plagues4046 upon413 thine heart,3820 and upon thy servants,5650 and upon thy people;5971 (KJV) For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people.}