Our Anchor
There’s something that is needed for our lives today. We have to anchor ourselves in the Word of God. Our day to day lives can be so hectic. Everyday things like work and our families can be enough to cause us to stress and be fearful. 
How do we handle the issues of life? What is our response? Do we respond in anger, and yell at those around us? Do we take our stress out on our family and friends? Are we scared to make a decision and try to hide? Are we bound by fear that we can’t seem to move forward in our lives? There are many more ways that this can play out in our responses.
Cause & Effect
God never says that bad things wouldn’t happen to us. Life happens. There are decisions that we make that have a cause and effect relationship in our life. How we respond to them is the key.
When you go to a funeral service and after everything is done. All the songs have been sung, the scriptures have been read, the eulogy has been given and the funeral home lets the family have the last viewing. This can be one of the hardest things to have to go through. How we respond to something like this shows what we are really made of. Can we move forward with our lives? Not forgetting the person, but living a life that shows the world the love that we were shown by our loved one. Or are we bound by fear that what happened to them will happen to us? Is the depression of losing a love one enough that we never seem to move on? 
Our Response
To truly live by faith like God has called us to do, to live this life in the love of God and walk in love everyday is possible. We can examine and see how we are by our responses. Our response tells us whether or not we’re acting like the Christian we claim to be.
My wife may say or do something that I don’t agree with or that hurt my feelings. How I respond to her, shows my love for God. It also will show my love for her, but if I first don’t have love for God, then I will never be able to love my wife when life happens. God told me to love my wife. He never said that I would agree or like everything that she would do. I have to be able to set aside my feelings and love her with something greater than myself.
What We Can Learn
Our responses to life tell us more about us than we think. The saying “Do as I say not as I do” is foolish. I’m raising a son and I don’t ever want to tell him this. I want him to “Do as I do.” So I have to make sure what I do is something that I want to be imitated by my son. As life happens I know that he is and will be watching me.
I challenge you today to look at your responses when life happens. How do you respond? Are we responding in faith? In love? or are you responding in fear? In anger?
Great article!!