"It's my response that matters"

I am sitting in my lovely home with my awesome family after a great day of working with my TS Cellular team. God has blessed me with a great job, a wonderful family, a nice home and the honor of calling myself a Christian. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for all of His blessings in my life!

I am only 32 years old, but I have learned a few things in my relatively short three decades on planet earth. One of these things is that life just happens! Ready or not, prepared or unprepared, willing or unwilling, life just happens! And we cannot stop it no matter how hard we try.

It's true ladies and gentleman, life doesn't discriminate against rich or poor, fat or skinny, pretty or homely, last name or family history; life has a way to deal the sharpest of curve balls to everyone who adorns human flesh from time to time.

Here is another thing that is true, being a Christian does not immune you against all calamity. The Bible specifically declares that "it rains on the just and the unjust". We cannot control what happens to us, we are at the mercy of the events that find their way into our lives. However, all of us have total control over one thing, how WE RESPOND to the events that unfold in our lives!

It has been said that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it. I agree with this statement. It is in our response to life's problems, calamities and confusions that define our character and integrity. We find out exactly who we are and what we are made of when life hurls it's adversities at us and forces us to respond in one manner or another.

For me, I try to respond in a way that honors God and perseveres through the rough times. I know that people are watching me, I want to act in a way that is honorable and may help somebody that faces the same thing in their life. Never forget, somebody may be using your tracks in their own lives.

So, the choice is ours. How we respond to the issues of life will dictate the level of joy and victory that we experience in our life. I don't claim to know a lot of things, but this one thing I do know, if God brings you to it, He can bring you through it!!!

Again, I cannot control what happens to me, but I can always control my response to the situation. In every problem, in every circumstance, in every situation, in every calamity, in every hardship and in every failure, I can still bless the Lord and be the husband and daddy that my family needs me to be. I can also be the leader my company needs me to be.

I must respond with character and integrity, how will you respond????