2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Do you like change? I like to change the colors of my house and move furniture around but that is the extent of change for me. I hate change! Life has been bringing me too many changes here lately.
William James, Harvard University’s famous professor of philosophy and psychology, once stated that after age 30 we become set like plaster and never change. But he was wrong. We can and do change~ Although I do it kicking and screaming.
John D. Rockefeller had become the world’s only billionaire. But he was a miserable man who couldn’t sleep, who was unloved, and who needed bodyguards.
Then at age 53 he was stricken with a rare disease. He lost all his hair, and his body became shrunken. He was given a year or so to live.
Rockefeller started thinking about eternal issues, and suddenly he began to change. He gave away his money to help churches and the poor. He established the Rockefeller Foundation, which has underwritten critical health research. His health improved, and contrary to the doctor’s prediction, he lived to be 98.
(Story taken from the Daily Bread)
If a man can change that much how can we question that Almighty God has the power to change lives? I look back at where I came from and I am amazed how much God has worked in my life. Now many may look and say I have a long way to go and that would be correct.
The Bible tells us that anyone who receives His blood cleansing ~ salvation by grace becomes a new creation. He begins changing us from that moment on. He's still working on me to make me what I ought to be.
I am thankful that when life seems to be ever changing~ He is the same yesterday~ today and forever. For this girl that does not like change I delight in the security I find in my never changing God.
Now that is a good enough reason to celebrate on this stormy Monday morning.
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