Time For Change?

When things are great we want to freeze time…when things are bad we want things to change as quickly as possible, right?

Seems that those great times never last as long as we want…but think about it: Could you really float down a river in a tube all the time? Or stand at the altar watching your bride walk towards you or as a bride walking towards your husband on your wedding day all the time? We would soon start to ask the question: “Is this as good as it gets?” or “So what is next…?” or “Now what…?” Right?

And in an opposite way, bad times seem to hang around like an unwelcome relative at a family party who just won’t leave. We want them to end, and we talk about the light at the end of the tunnel, but it sometimes feels like someone keeps moving the light…and we feel like it just will never end.

Getting what I am saying here? If left to our own feelings we just are never “exactly” where we want to be and are always looking for some new flavor or other kind of change. We want to go from bad to good, and then from good to better. WTH!!

Fact: Everything changes. There are actual scientific words and equations to explain this, but let’s not go there. Everything is in a state of decay (dispersing its stored energy). Simply put: change happens whether we want it to or not.

That being said, if we expected, anticipated, and accepted change, we could move along with much less stress, right? We need change, we want change, and we need to get along side of it…or we will be changed without input…"Light Bulb!?"

Get this – we will either embrace change, move with it, or we will be forced into change and be moved by it, period. Doubters out there you say? One word – AGE. That’s correct…try to fight that change. Death is coming - the mortality rate for a human being is 100% - 1 out of every 1 person will die. We are burying very well preserved people, but all the anti-aging cosmetic work in the world can’t prevent death.

So what are we supposed to do? Just hang on till we die? I think not:

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” John 10:10 (ESV)

Abundant life sound appealing to anyone? Change…it is all about who you are living for. A life lived for Jesus allows change to be part of the process, part of the journey, and not some road block to some destination known as the land we want to get to, known as “Better”.

So…time for a change or what?