I thought about what I wrote about our choices, about our human reactions and I started to wonder if people actually believe that there reactions are unchangeable, like a learned behavior. It is dangerous to say to myself I can not change, because I have put God in a box. I have limited what God can do, because He says all things are possible for those that love Him. It is the greatest commandment and if we do that then our reactions will not be out of our flesh, but be out of loving Jesus Christ and we should want to demonstrate His love to others.
It breaks down when we start justifying our reactions instead of asking God to forgive us for our reactions. If we start to look at the cause of why we are angry or having a negative response, it is because someone caused us wrong, or we got up on the wrong side of the bed, or its Monday, it is no longer about Jesus, it is about ourselves.
Paul said I do the things I don't want to do, even though I know it is wrong (or something like that). It is the human condition, but he later talks about that condition and says when we put Jesus Christ at the center that condition is no longer about what "I" want, but about what Jesus wants in me. It changes it all, so the negative reactions, the poor response, the anger at someone did me wrong response is no longer about Jesus it is about me. The response of blaming everyone else instead of looking at myself.
When we put Jesus truly at the center of our lives, you start seeing that it is about not what they do to me, but how Jesus loves them and He wants me to love them too, even when it is painful, even when they wronged me, even when I don't feel like it, because Jesus gave me a choice, He gave me freedom and He has given me grace. Shouldn't I do the same? It is not about me, it is about Jesus Christ who lives in me.
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