What Is Your Response-Ability?
What happens to you may be an accident. How you respond is not.Perspective is everything. A toddler cries when the stack of blocks falls over. (The parent knows that is is no big deal.) A child quits when the peewee baseball team loses a game. (The parent knows that the loss will soon be forgotten.) And the teenage guy feels rejected if he isn’t invited to the Sadie Hawkins dance. (We can speak from personal experience on this on. Life does go on.)
Change your perspective. Look at circumstances from God’s point of view. If you have an eternal perspective, then all of your difficulties will seem to shrink. God doesn’t see insurmountable obstacles in your life, although they may appear that way to you. He is able to conquer any adverse situation, so look at it through His eyes. Before you know it, the problem will be gone, and the unpleasantness will be forgotten.
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:18
Well class. In the eyes of a child, Everything that happens to he or she is big because they are small in
comparison to the parents and adults in their life.
So, In Kind. We are all children to God for He is and should be big to us. Therefore, things that happen to
us are very big from our point of view but they are all
smalll to Christ. “it is no big deal to God, but not
so to us Finite little minded people here on planet E. ”
Question: How can I be friends with God
but Fear Him as the scriptures tell me to.?
I would never want to be fearfull of my best friend, yet
that is what I am suppose to be with God.
I can not be affraid of God and still think of Him as a
friend. The two emotions contridict each other.
People think that when the Bible says to “fear” God, we are to be afraid of Him. That’s not what it means. The meaning of fear in this sense is not being afraid, but showing respect. Pastor Chuck Swindoll once defined the fear of God this way: “Take Him seriously and do what He says.” God can be our friend, but He is also our Lord. We need to take Him seriously, not just because He knows what’s best for us, but also because our lives will be better for it.
Stan