Responses

I have been thinking for a while....... our lives are really not much more than reactions. We react to the weather, our friends, our family members, our bosses/teachers, and even our bodies. When the weather turns bad, we choose to go or not to go to town, we choose what clothes we will arm ourselves with, and even to carry an umbrella or not. Friends say and do things that we take personally and say or do things that we often regret. Family members do the same, they never think we are as important as we think we are. Our jobs and schools require us to make decisions all day long. Our bodies even cause us to choose to medicate it or not. Aches and pains in our bodies are usually a warning (like a check engine light in your car) that alerts us to some problem/imbalance in our body. HOWEVER, just over the past week, I was led to think about RESPONDING, rather than reacting (there is a difference). While reacting, all we can draw on is our own experience and teachings. We almost instinctively just "fly off the handle" and say and do things that often times don't line up with our instructions manual... THE HOLY BIBLE. I hereby challenge myself and anyone else to choose to compare our responses to what the BIBLE says, BEFORE we run it by our friends/family members/bosses/teachers. Hurting people hurt other people, we should always choose to stop, drop (to our knees), and roll (with the punches) when we are hurt or offended by something someone says.

Lord please help me to respond in such a way that you will approve.