Don't Be Afraid of
Change
Change can be difficult for most people,
Romans 7:6
but in order to be happy we have
to
become better and becoming
better But
now we are delivered
involves change. Anything that is
alive from
the law, that being
grows and changes constantly;
only dead
wherein we were held;
dead things cease to
grow. that
we should serve
in
newness
of spirit, and not
To become alive as God is alive,
we
in the oldness of the letter.
have to give up our old, dead habits
and take up new and righteous
ways.
Walking with God requires constant
God
does not want us to look
renewing and changing of
ourselves. at
his words in the bible as a
Therefore, we must be willing to
make book
of rules as we have in
difficult choices and changes
to
past, but he wants us to live
become
new. his
words with a new
perspective
and to enjoy
serving
him.
2 Corinthians
5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ,
he
Galatians 6:15
is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things
are For
in Christ Jesus neither
become
new.
circumcision availeth any
thing,
nor uncircumcision, but a new
nor uncircumcision, but a new
creature.
Becoming new takes persistence
and
boldness. Persistence is needed
to
become new because it is required
to You
don not make strides in
break old habits. Constant
attention following
Jesus' perfect walk
to your ways, actions, and
thoughts by
remaining the same old
are vital to break old habits and to
form person
with the same old ways.
new ones. Boldness is needed
to To become
a new person
in
become new because others who
were Jesus,
your old ways have to
aware of and comfortable with your
old completely
destroyed and new
ways may expect and pressure you
to ones
have to be created.
go back to your former habits. You
have to become bold in the face
of Following God
with a new
pressure by keeping your
new perspective
and getting rid
righteous ways and staying
away of
former habits pleases
from your
former ways. God
tremendously. We can
become
new everyday by
focusing
on our thoughts and
actions,
and ridding ourselves
Romans
6:4 of
things within us that are
not
profitable to God's
Therefore we are buried with him
by kingdom
or to ourselves.
baptism into death: that like as Christ
was raised up from the dead by the
glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life.
Change is vital to following God. It
is important to renew our mind, actions
and words everyday to please God.
Becoming a follower of God's words
requires constant learning and revision
of ways we may have thought were right
in the past.
Constant revision of ourselves is required
because we all fall short of God's
perfection. Although we fall short of
God's perfection, Jesus has shown it is
possible for us to be perfect in our ways.
Jesus showed a perfect example when he
came to earth, took on a body of flesh,
resisted temptation and lived perfectly.
