CHANGE!

The topic of “change” is one spoken of often, however, not from the perspective that I believe is most needful or helpful. There is much said about how through faith we can change just about everything, from relationships to circumstances. What I have learned through trails, experience and the truth of God’s Word is that in nearly every circumstance of my life that I want to change, what actually need’s to change is ME! No matter how much I pray, complain, desire, demand etc. when it’s all said and done I am the only thing I have the power to change. And that change happens only through obedience of action and submission of heart to His Word and by His grace.

So often we think that if we change our natural and external circumstances, meaning jobs or income, living arrangements or relationships that the issues we face will disappear. (Now let me say for the babes, if you are practicing sin as in living as married yet not married, YES, do change your circumstance, as with any other sin) Yet speaking in all other issues if you change your external circumstances thinking that the situation will be different, you might find perhaps for a while reprieve, yet within a time you will be exactly where you were before.  We have a tendency to see the need for change in everything around us including those we love and encounter daily. And somehow convince ourselves if everything else were different we would have a different life or we would or then could be different. Yet, we fail to recognize that the one single common dominator in every situation regardless that is constant is us! Funny, how our very heart deceives us, isn’t it? Everything else isn’t the problem. Everyone else isn’t the problem. You are. I am. That is the truth.  We need to change. First we must acknowledge that we are the problem. We must admit that we need to change. We must dedicate ourselves to change by submitting our whole lives to the truth of His Word. Then a miraculous thing happens, all the issues that we had before crumble before us. The mountains turn into mole hills, the peaks turn into valleys and nothing is too great for us to overcome. The circumstance may be the same from an external natural sense but the change in us will handle it completely different. We will have confidence knowing God is for us, wisdom in how to conduct ourselves, grace to endure and the peace of God to keep us in the midst of any circumstance. GLORY BE TO GOD!

I pray that God would open our eyes so that we would see ourselves clearly, that God would reveal our hearts to us and that He would grant us repentance so that we may change and increasingly become more Christ like.

May the God of all mercy and truth keep you and bless you this day and always!