Things around us change all the time. Often they need replacing because they get
worn, old, obsolete. With use machinery wears out, needs new parts, or gets
rusty. Everything changes. We have to change with our circumstances and it is
not always easy to let go of the old.
Right from birth we have to change! Our
human bodies are replaced several times over our life. We don't look exactly
like we did some years ago! We have to lose our childish ways and adapt to
growing up. it is not helpful to remain a child in an adult body.
These
things are true in the spiritual realm as well. Another word for change is
growth. We have to mature and eat spiritual meat, no longer feeding on milk. God
has new things to show us, new truths to teach us, new paths to lead us in. To
progress we have to let go of the old, and embrace the new. It is certain that
we brought nothing into this world and can take nothing out. But we can take
with us our personality and nature. As we become more like Jesus and have our
nature renewed in His image, we take that with us into the other life that will
open to receive us. Don't hold onto old ways and habits. Change for the better.
He will help you to be willing and work out His purpose and will in your life if
you surrender. God works in us, let work out our salvation with reverential
fear.
'It is God who works in you to WILL AND TO ACT according to His
purpose' Philipians 2:13
'See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do
you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the
wasteland' Isaiah43:19
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