John
Maxwell has said; “Change is not a once and for all kind of thing - if only it
were that easy. No, changing ourselves is a lifelong process.” Not only that,
but we must be intentional about how we want to change. I find that we often
make two mistakes in this area. First, we often sit around and wait for God to
change our circumstances. Second, we wait for circumstances to change our
attitude and our behavior. Is it any wonder that some people change so little?
Most people fail to see that life is moving on at a rapid speed. None of us
have all the time we'd like to have…and, in fact, we are not getting any
more…so we need to take control and make the best of the time we have. Someone
once said that the only person who really wants change in the church are the
wet babies!
If you see an area you need to change,
CHANGE NOW. I'm not talking about cosmetic changes. That's where we change our
talking but not our thinking, we change our environment instead of our
expectations, our appearance instead of our attitudes, our business instead of
our behavior, and our biases instead of our beliefs.
Rather than intentionally changing
ourselves, too many of us are “wisher’s” content with dreaming about the
results we desire from life and wonder why they remain just that - “dreams, and
wishes!”
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