Change… it’s an enticing, exhausting, oversold, and absolutely essential progression of moments. The longing for it was birthed by the Creator, and the Fall marbled the process with frustration.
If you are a person who wants to make a difference, just think of how often your thoughts, your reading, your work is focused on how to make change. What does it take? Why is it so often so limited? so resistant? so temporary? so prone to reversal?
Change…the problem with change is we are married, addicted, to who we are at the present. I’m not saying that we don’t have grandiose dreams of what might be different or who we might become. But every change takes change – the more significant, the more internal, deep, the change required.
And there is the sticking point. As much as we would long to change, we have become co-dependent on who we are presently. In our fallenness, we have grown to love the broken mechanisms of who we are. We even have phrases to back it up: “Be who you are!” “Look inside yourself.” It’s as if we think the only thing necessary is a bit of tinkering or a greater self-image. We just need an inspirational pep rally, and we can conquer any change. We don’t realize that ultimate change requires fundamental change – core level, warp and woof, fundamental change.
Last time I looked honestly inside I found the heart of the problem, not the solution. I saw the nature of my brokenness, the internal tendencies that left unchecked would sabotage my future.
So, if you dare… if you would change, come on a journey with me over the next number of blogs to experience real change.
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Why you always want to change…whats wrong with staying the same.
Comment by Debbie October 15, 2010 @ 11:48 pmWell, we started out all right and then it was that apple, Eve, Adam doin’ nothin’ thing. And now,…
Comment by Phil Olsen October 22, 2010 @ 2:09 amNo pain, no gain! I don’t like it either…but it’s part of the Fall. I guess if we stayed the same, that would be flat-lining it…dying. God’s design is for us to be in a growth process all of our lives…becoming MORE LIKE HIM!
Comment by Janan October 27, 2010 @ 10:05 pm