I think that both God and man are always checking out how we might respond when we are confronted with questions or when corrected. And, as we mature as Christians, we are confronted more and more with the question, “Am I responding in my human nature, or am I responding how the Lord would want me to respond?”

It is so easy to react out of what we have been taught in the way of doctrine, by something that has been real to us in our past, or by our conditioning to hurts and other circumstances. But what is the Lord’s answer in the moment?

Jesus is our great example on how to respond when we are put under pressure. If you follow His ministry, He was able to respond out of Kingdom principles and the Holy Spirit, rather than the “letter of the Law” or the flesh nature. This is why the religious people of the day could never trap Him in a wrong way.

As we grow in the Lord and continue to allow the Lord to work daily in our hearts and our thinking, we will be able, more and more, to respond with the heart of the Father.