Change? Who Me?

Tuesday evening, August 12, 2008 [ONLY 71 degrees and raining!],
Each of us is well-aware that we live in a world of change, a world in which nothing seems to stay the same. About the time we think we have something figured out, it changes and we have to refigure (a teenager, for example). Just when we finally have the circumstances of our lives arranged as we want them, somehow the proverbial “rug” gets jerked from under us and everything changes (finances or marriage, for example). The fact of the matter is this: from the moment of conception, each one of us lives in a state of constant flux (change that produces unrest). As we continue to grow and to mature, the experiences of life send us a very clear (clearly negative) message about change; consequently, it doesn’t take us long to develop the perception that change most often brings very severe and unwanted consequences. As a result, we develop a very strong resistance to any and all change.
Regardless, however, of personal perception, and even though it sounds like an oxymoron, change is a part of life that is here to stay! The good news is this: God designed it for our benefit and for His glory. The bad news is this: because of our strong resistance to change, we tend to fight it in order to preserve the status quo, and we do so, even when the status quo is the very thing that is robbing us of His perfect gift, the gift that He designed for our good and for His glory; namely, victorious Christian living.
For reasons that are better left with God, we are very prone to acclimate ourselves to the familiar, even the painfully familiar; consequently, we resist any change that might move us out of these familiar places into the not-so-familiar. Sadly, many people (uneducated, financially strapped, caretakers, battered women, abused children, victims of affairs, for examples) choose to remain in these familiar places, rather than to take the risk of being moved outside their perceived comfort zone, even though their choice is robbing them of God’s perfect gift. Fortunately, however, God has whatever it takes to force a move, and to do so without respect to our preferences, and when He does, it is always good—very good—even though we probably won’t agree (at least, not at first).
Just thought I would remind you-