The Business of Changing
Our dislike of change starts early. Just think about how a baby struggles when she would rather do anything right now than have her diaper changed.
I hope I haven’t told you this story before, but if I have, it’s worth repeating. Last summer I told you about our friends Doug and Cora Beal whom we knew in Oxford, Mississippi, many years ago. This almost ninety-year-old twosome have been living a long obedience every day we have known them.
One Sunday morning, when I was in my twenties, I was in Doug’s Sunday School class. I don’t remember the topic of the class, but I do remember a member of the class making this statement: “That’s just the way I am.”
Doug responded: “There is only one I AM. The rest of us are in the business of changing.”
Change doesn’t have to be scary. Just think of the joy we feel when leaves change in the fall.
God must feel something like that when He sees us change, too.
And do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
so that you may prove what the will of God is,
that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2