Time keeps moving and things keep happening. Everything keeps changing. How can you resist change?
Perhaps, yes, you think you are perfect enough now so you want to stay the same. So you resist change (or you think you are resisting). But can you be forever the same? Can you say that new experiences and new happenings that you encounter can never leave a mark in your life?
I never wanted to be the same. I never wanted to stay the same. It doesn't mean that I don't appreciate myself or who God created me to be but God never said to resist change or to stay the same. We are to grow to be more and more like Christ. I've seen so much of myself that I know I need to change that I can change. Change to be better, so much better. From weak to strong, from proud to humble, from stubborn to flexible, from hate to love. Isn't that such a good thing?
From being inferior to everyone to being confident and talented. From letting people step all over me to setting boundaries to protect myself and to stand up for myself. From whining all the time to being grateful for everything. From always being anxious to trusting in God for everything. From being full of fear to being strong in Christ and His Word. From being depressed to being joyful.
God is making changes and I am letting Him although it has been seriously humbling and painful. I don't resist the change because it happens, it is necessary and also important.
I do believe that resisting change will result in people being stuck in time like Emily in the story, A Rose for Emily who was stuck in time, never changing while the society around her changed and she died a sad death. Although people now will not necessarily be so dramatic as Emily but then, it's kind of similar, isn't it? For example, people who stay being selfish and hot tempered eventually grows up, never changing that bad characteristics and then get married. The person will bring that into their marriage and then influence their children who in turn will turn out just like their parent. Those characteristics will bring problems too to the family. Then we end up having selfish monkeys running around university wasting time and not achieving anything. (Lol, the monkey running in universities part is said by my favourite lecturer xD)
It's not easy to change. It's not easy to get out of a bad habit. I am truly grateful I have a good God who gives me strength and power to change to be better, into the fullness of what He created me to be - all my strengths, talents, abilities and everything. I am also thankful that He sends people along my way to support and help and guide me. God is truly good.
I always think that God is preparing me to do something super awesome and big because He put me through such pain and suffering necessary for me to realise and change and develop qualities which are good and to destroy what is bad. God has something huge in store for me ;)
How about you?
Change is not easy, but necessary.
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