Change – A Must If We Must Move Forward

There is no doubt that consistency makes life easier. It’s just easier to have things remain the same but that is not reality. I wish my friends could remain the same and we would always live happily forever but nice as it seems, it is not real. Change must naturally occur to move us forward and sometimes in different directions. People must be born; they must grow and leave the earth at some point. Even growth evidences change. Funny as this may sound, change is sometimes more fearful when one walks with God though it ought to be the opposite. As mere mortals, our flesh first instinct is often to reject the changes God brings into our lives but if we are patient, we would find that it would ultimately work good for us. God, in making these changes in our lives, takes complete control leaving us helpless and unable to determine how everything would eventually turn out; we must then find comfort in the fact that God has a great plan for us in all He does so that it is never change just for the purpose of change. 

Ezekiel 21: 27kjv “I will overturn, overturn and overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it to him.””

We often talk about God taking us higher in life and believers coming up higher even in our walk with God. These things sound very good but the out working is often not a likeable process neither is it anticipated so that one is not immediately certain if their life is worse or better off. One should not be in a hurry to make that decision; I think we should at that point just try to follow God and eventually, life would let us know whether God’s change worked out good for us or evil. It gets tough sometimes when it appears a lot of painful changes are going on in one’s life when another person’s life appears sane and normal but we must be reminded that God can be like that sometimes; believe me, it would be the other person’s turn at another time and they may be going through their own thing which you are not aware of. God makes these changes to establish us in His ‘promises.’ Sometimes the changes make people treat one differently, even in ways one may not appreciate but please take no offence; it is time for change that you may fulfill your destiny.

Hebrews 10: 9bkjv “He taketh away the first that He may establish the second”

The Israelites went through a lot of changes to get to the Promised Land. Sadly, God had to take away the first set of people to ensure that a certain group of Israelites entered the Promised Land. I guess if most of the initial people did not die, no Israelite may have entered the Promised Land because they would have impacted the younger generation wrongly. Joseph went through several major changes that He could not understand or explain but which ultimately brought him to the role of Prime minister in Egypt. It is hard to fully understand where God is going until He completes what He is doing. We must however, trust Him enough to let Him take away the first that He may establish the new in our lives. If it wasn’t necessary to take it away, He wouldn’t; He does not go out of His way to inflict pain. Our pain does not give Him pleasure and be certain that He will be with you through it all. Fear of pain or the unknown must not cause us to hold unto the old.

The long awaited answers to our prayers are here but shall we receive them or let go of them because they have not met our expectation or are taking us out of your comfort zone? Just taking a few steps higher on a staircase changes everything. One’s perspective changes completely because your view is wider, the risk of getting wounded if you fall is higher and you would most likely become more visible. Things definitely change. Going from glory to glory is a lot of change but it is the goodness of God. You can’t insist on remaining in the same place and hope to enjoy the goodness of God. Climbing is never the easiest thing but it takes us higher and to a new and different place.