I heard the other day that change is good. My first reaction was: NO! It's NOT!
I don't like change. Well, to be honest, I don't mind change. When it is me making the choice, then I'm all for it. I give it all the enthusiasm it deserves. But change thrust upon me unannounced and unprepared for is a no-no. I like to be in charge, you see. I've discovered a great joy in organizing events and people. It's not that I need fanfare or applause, or even to be recognised all that much. I just like to put things into motion and be able to have input in how it's all going to go. I like control. I used to believe that I belonged up on stage, stirring people to action or a change in how they view things, yet circumstances and opportunities have left me in the background, and I am quite delighted and challenged to do just that. It doesn't come naturally to me. oh no. Yet here I am.
I've been thinking about change a lot lately. There have been many of them since December. Heather coming home is a biggie. Faith turning 9 has been huge. Change in me because of the things God is leading me through and conforming me out of/into. I have found myself embracing some of them, and really groaning over the others.
I have been told that the process of change may be difficult, but the change itself is good. I guess I can agree with that one. God didn't leave me as He found me, and He isn't going to leave me the way I am now. He is going to change me. He is going to make me like Jesus. And that is good.
2 comments:
I was talking to a friend about this yesterday. Why we must be silly humans with routine loving lives, I will never know. Jesus was sure a radical when He said we had to give up everything to follow Him. We have to go completely against the grain of our natural selves. Quite an adventure, isn't it?
Interestingly, the chapter I'm reading now in A.W. Tozer's "The Knowledge of the Holy" talks about God being the only unchanging thing in existence and how He uses change to bring about perfection in us. Good stuff!
Post a Comment