So I'm laying in bed on this July morning and a slightly morbid, but true thought comes into my head. "The day I stop changing, is the day I die." Okay, so it's not like I'm laying here thinking about the day that I die or anything of the sort. Instead I'm just laying here thinking about change. That word has been a HUGE word to me throughout my life. Change used to be thee scariest word for me growing up... and even really up until pretty recently. I didn't see change as a good thing. I saw it as something to run from and to work to keep it from happening as much as possible. I'm not sure what changed since then, but somehow that word got altered in this stubborn mind of mine.
I'm gonna go ahead and say God had a pretty big part in this alteration. The word change. It is a very biblical word if you think about it. God wants us to be constantly changing, and for the better at that. The day we stop seeking this bettering change should be the day we meet God face to face in heaven. I'm about to get a little preachy here, so excuse me... when I think about an unchanging person, I think of the verses on being a lukewarm Christian. God doesn't have much good to say about that. "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I will spit you out of my mouth." Revelation 3:15-16. If those verses doesn't make us a little scared of lukewarmness, I don't know what would.
The point of this post is not to make you all scared into changing... I guess it is mostly just to say how awesome being open to change has been in my life. The minute God knew I was open to change, however small that openness might have been, change began taking place. For example, transferring from Greenville to SAU. Never did I ever think that change would actually happen. Change can be good, and is good. Being open to change and striving to change to be even closer to the person God wants you to be is really truly super rewarding. I am no where near perfect or no where near being fully changed. I have accepted that I will probably be changing for the rest of my life, and I am finally okay with this and welcome the change. Every day may not bring about a huge change, and some days I'll probably feel like I made a change for the worse... but I know that with God on my side, the change in my life and heart will ultimately be for the better, as long as God is the one directing the change.
"Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."
Romans 12:2
