From A Park Bench - What is my response?

Each of us, every moment we live respond to the everyday situations. Some of those responses are so natural, so ingrained in us we automatically just accept them as ‘part of us’. The way we handle criticism, the justification of our own action, the receiving of a compliment, the agenda of a glance, the way we avert our eyes to cover our embarrassment, the list is endless. Each moment is made up of our individual responses. As i write this, a chap just walked past my window, glanced and gave me a friendly smile, I responded by smiling back.

Faith is a response, it is my response to all God has provided by grace. This response can vary in its degree, I can either embrace and savor all God has richly provided for me or i can reject it and walk away from it. Either way God has still provided it, it is still all available for me, it is really dependent upon my response.

We all respond to the God, we can frown and turn away, God is not going to force us to believe, he is not going to impose himself on us, he has revealed himself to us through Jesus and it is up to us what we do with him.

Often in the past, i cried out for God to do something, to act. I would pray and ask him to move by his power, to come and help me, to heal me, to deliver me, to act. I did not realize that God through Christ had already provided my deliverance, my healing, my answer. God had anticipated my need and through grace had already provided the answer. I had already been given the answer before i asked.

In Christ i have all i need to live a fulfilled, victorious life. The same power that raised Christ from the dead now lives in me and I am filled with the fullness of Christ.

My response is Amen to all the promises of God offered to me by grace, in Christ.