CHANGE - EVERYONE loves change on SOME level. Think about it.......
- Football season is about to start here in the U.S. This is a football-obsessed country, and so this is a "welcome" time of year for many.
- The early coolness of Fall weather is starting to set in. Who doesn't love the changing leaf colors and the weather being as comfortable as any time of the year...that transition from Summer to Fall.
- Kids are back in school...back to homework and teachers and reports and recess.
- We just elected a new President in the U.S., and regardless of your agreement or disagreement with his policies, much of the population has anticipated and/or expected "change" on some political level.
- Many like to switch cars on a regular basis. Others move every few years for a "change of home and/or scenery." Statistics on how often people switch JOBS show that we're doing it with more regularity than ever before.
- People shop for new clothes regularly, easily becoming tired of the same wardrobe and wanting something new and different.
You get the point. We tend to LIKE change...EXTERNAL change that is.
What about the kind of change that REALLY matters though? INTERNAL change...the change in our HEARTS' DEVOTION? What about the absolutely eternally NECESSARY changes that HAVE to take place to give us a shot at HEAVEN? We are CHARGED to be more like JESUS CHRIST every day. The Apostle Paul said, in Philippians 3:7-14,
"But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
Look at the HUMILITY and the deep DESIRE Paul had to KEEP CHANGING...from the INSIDE out! It's an okay thing to enjoy VARIETY in our external surroundings, but the CHANGE that lasts ETERNALLY is the CONSTANT PURSUIT to be more and more CHRISTLIKE every day. AGAIN, think about it...we want and even EXPECT changes in our surroundings, but WHO made US? GOD ALMIGHTY! Doesn't HE deserve for HIS surroundings...His people made in His image...to be INCREASINGLY PURE and ever CHANGING to be more and more like His beloved Son Jesus? Doesn't HE deserve for HIS days to look BETTER each day? Which side do you fall on? As GOD looks down on your life, is He increasingly MORE JOYFUL...or increasingly MORE SADDENED, HURT, and DISAPPOINTED? We CAN make this switch if you're on the wrong side of that answer! As we've Blogged about and discussed on our WDWB LIVE segments earlier this week, it starts with a CHOICE. Then we continue to be Spirit-led in making right DECISIONS...one day at a time!
We're talking about CHANGE...today on WDWB LIVE at 3:30pm CST. We sure hope you'll join us. ALSO, remember that our first-ever WDWB ONLINE CHAT is set for 7:30pm CST this evening! You can CLICK HERE, then simply LOG IN with your Weigh Down username and password, and you'll be in the Chat Room. We're going to have fun with this...discussing our favorite Weigh Down Audios, Videos, Music, Messages, etc. You'll get to "WEIGH IN" with your opinions! Enjoy a great day of CHANGE...starting on the INSIDE. It's a BLESSED life!
