How do you respond to the actions and reactions of others? When something or someone catches you off guard what do you do? Do you stop, think about it, and let God tell you how to respond or do you just react in accordance to how your flesh is feeling? We have to learn how to respond even when we feel like reacting.
To react means to act in a particular way as a direct result of something happening. A reaction is usually quick and it is usually done without much thought. Whereas, a response is thought out. It is still a reply or answer to what has happened but it is one that has been thought out and it doesn’t have to be (all though it still can be) based on emotion.
We have to learn how to respond to not only people but to life and the situations that come up in life. How are you responding to what we are going through in the world today? Are you reacting emotionally and failing to respond spiritually? Our spiritual response has to be based on God and His Word. We have to know that God said that He will never leave us nor forsake us. We have to know that He is watching over His Word to perform it in our lives. We have to know that if we are born of God and have faith, we have the victory. We have to know that it is the Lord God who is the Healer.
Understand, the first step to knowing how to respond in life is knowing what God has said about our lives.
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
1 John 5:3-4
King James Version
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
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