Growth in our Lord can be difficult, for it involves change. For many of us change is difficult. We tend to like things the way they are even if it means struggle.
Mark Twain said: “The only person who likes change is a wet baby”
Some one else said: “If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.”
Charles Kettering is quoted as saying: "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
One of the major factors that God uses to bring change is adversity, struggle and pain. How many want to change when things are progressing well and there is prosperity?
God tries in many ways to get us to change and grow and when we don’t, He is forced to use trials to get us to wake up and look up and listen up.
God seeks to get us to yield everything in our lives up to Him and allow Him to take where He knows we need to be. This can be scary! Like Abraham of old, we discover that each next step is given to us only at the present moment. The entire plan of God is not spelled out for us in detail. “The reality of life for Christian men and women requires that they leave what is nailed down, obvious and secure and walk into the desert without rational explanations to justify their decisions or guarantee their future. Why? Solely and simply because God signals His movement and offers his promise.” (Brennan Manning; The Signature of Jesus; page 18)
Are we truly convinced of the reliability of God? Do we really believe He has our best interests at heart? Are we ready to grow and be changed into the image of Jesus?
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