Change Changes Our Lives

If we never needed the Lord we need Him now. If we ever needed change we need change now. Change, changes the direction of our lives. Change takes us from going the wrong way to going the right way. If you and I want change in our lives there is usually something or some area we must change. Nothing stays the same forever, everything changes. If we look at the world today it has changed and in some ways with this Coronavirus things will never be the same again. Change literally changes our lives. The question is what type of change do you need?

Do you need to pray more? Do you need to read more? Do you need to change your eating habits, spending habits or any habit? Do you need to exercise more? Or watch less TV, Netflix's or Hulu? Guess what whatever it is you can put God in it. There is no area in our life that escapes Him. He is in and a part of the change in some form or fashion, directly or indirectly. God knows everything concerning us. One of my very favorite passages of scripture is Psalm 139. David says in verses 1-6, “You have searched me, Lord and know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty to attain.”  

God knows everything and there is nothing that escapes him. David acknowledges that God even knows our thoughts afar off. He knows our thoughts before we think them! He knows the very hairs that are numbered on our head. He knows the end before the beginning! He is God and knows everything! And guess what He has great things prepared for you and me. We just must change to get what God has. Change changes our lives and gives us access to what God has in store. “But as it is written, Eye have not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for those that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9)

If we couldn’t see it before we have to see it now God is wanting, seeking and looking for us to change. And guess what no matter what state the world is in, change begins is in each of us. We change one day at a time, one person at a time in one way at a time. God is even patient and long suffering with our change. He doesn't expect us to do what we cannot do, but He expects us to do what we are supposed to do. 

In an episode of Martin, Gina wanted Martin to change and he refused. Fear kept him from making the life changing decision to do what was in his heart wanted to do and Gina wanted him to do and that was marry her. He was fighting his feelings and fears and refusing to change. It even got to the point he was rude and hurt her, the woman he loved and didn’t intend to because he was fighting the change. So Gina changed, she left and moved away taking a job in New York (I believe). This change changed everything for Martin. He struggled with the change that had taken place. His life was no longer the same and he didn’t know how to fix what his refusal to change created. Let me pause for a moment and ask you what area in your life are you refusing to change and as a result it is making your life more difficult than it needs to be? God sometimes and oftentimes is waiting on us to change. To change our ways, methods, way of thinking, decisions, behavior, actions, etc...Change, changes our lives one way or another. Why? To ensure that change is for the good. God told us, “For I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not evil to give you a hope and an expected end.” (Jeremiah 29:11) Didn’t we already say God knows everything? He knows the end before the beginning. He is everywhere all the time. He’s just waiting on us to catch up!

To quote a line from the Martin show, after Gina left and Martin was having a hard time he had a few friends over to play and he spent so much time talking about Gina they eventually left and before the last man left he told Martin “ain’t no fool like an old fool.” The bible tells us to choose ye this day whom you will serve. This in my opinion is inclusive of who you will follow, and pattern your life after. The benefits of following and allowing God to change you is indescribable. The bible tells us:

“And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high and how long his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think” (Ephesians 3:18-20).

God has so much in store for us but we must change the things that are needed in order to get to it. Let’s be willing to do the work. Change changes our lives. Let’s individually and collectively be the change God desires and receive all that He has to offer.