Reality of Change

The Reality of Change

Making a change is not only a sacrifice for another, but instead a blessing for you. Therefore anytime God wants to promote you, He will require some change in your life. Change is not change until everything must change, finally change will challenge us for growth. Father help us to change for a better us.

I have come to many crosses of life and I realized change is inevitable, anytime God calls he expects us to grow and to open up for the reality of change.

Life is the reflection of up and down, it always challenges us in different perspective and this must enhance in us a desire for growth. The peculiarity of life with these realities and oppositions must awaken in us a desire for change.

What is change?
While we do have many definitions of change, a simple one is just the ability of making a decision. Many of us want change but run away from the reality of understanding that change can’t occur without us making decisions. The reality for us must be honest and sincere; we can’t see any change in us, if we don’t make a quality decision.

Why Change?

This is the most difficult question? Why do you want change? If you really want change your first question should always be “why do I want change?” Why don’t I want my situation? Why don’t I want my career? Why don’t I want my marriage? Why don’t I want my relationship? Why don’t I want what I do? Why don’t I want who am I?
The “why question” must always raise in us, anytime we try to change anything in our lives, the necessity of asking that question is imperative to help us to discover the true intent and motivation of us trying to change our life.
I meet many people who change careers easily, when you ask them relevant questions, why are you changing jobs, why are you changing boyfriends or girlfriends? It could be maybe because of unselfish desires, maybe resolved issues or any kind of unhealed hurt, now being exposed externally with unbalanced behavior or unsatisfactory desires.
After you realize or answer the why question honestly, now you are able to move for a change. Let me be clear, don’t divorce your husband or your wife unless it has been sanctioned by the scripture. Sometimes other things do not require to change maybe they just require a little sacrifice, an endurance or improvement. For example, a couple who always disagree and fight, don’t quit the marriage, they make that work. Nutshell in case of an abusing situation you should always seek for suitable and peace reconciliation. I come to realize sometimes because we seek for quick fix, we run away prematurely for the thing we should make work.

When change must occur?

A warning sign, do not change because you are frustrated about a situation, however confront and affront your situation, often time problems or situations in our lives could give us an impression of prematurely trying to get off from problems or seek for change. Remember unhealthy change will always bring negative results. Before we make a change on any decision we must understand the right time for that change to take place.

Change requires decision:
Without a decision there is no change at all. I am always amazed with people who want to see some change or different result in their lives but they are unable to make a decision.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over by expecting a different result. Can I just suggest to you that any time you want to see change you need to make a decision; if you want a positive result in your life, you need a positive change and a healthy decision.
Healthy decision plus positive change equal positive result.
I see student who want to see their grade change, but refuse to improve their personal study.

Change is difficult but necessary
Change is not easy; every change will require a repositioning of life, sometimes change will require also restructuring lives. Life is a pattern, there is nothing new, and everything comes to us as a cycle.

Change is forecasting the future
Before you make any decision you should always think about your future, where are you and what are you planning to accomplish? Do not make any decision without forecasting the future. In life today we are dealing with two types of people; some with short sight and other with long sight. The scriptures say “A wise man see a danger in front of him and hide himself”. Anytime I am thinking about change I must reflect on my future. Because some change may be good for the present but will cost you the future.

Change is progressive
Change does not occur at once, it’s a process; it’s not a day thing but it’s a daily thing. We must be cooperative with our change, allow change to process us, and have room for growth. While change remains one of the most difficult things, we must let that process take time, because every process will bring us to a progressive stage.

Tips for change

Spiritual change: This starts with repentance which means changing your ways. Let us not live in denieal while we’re on this earth for there is a creator God to whom we are going to be accountable to, because the book of Hebrew 9:27 “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”... The earth is called to face a judgment of God, therefore we must change our ways and accept the free gift of salvation Jesus Christ as personal lord and savior.
For those who are Christian or born again, we must always change for the better. Daily change is the moving from mediocrity to excellence, from ungodly to godly moral and character. Reading the word of God, daily meditation of the scripture with a life of prayer will encourage us to change for a better us.

Emotional change: Run away from every abusive relationships. Nowadays many women and men are involved in emotional and psychological unhealthy relationships, some woman for the sake of keeping a man or being involved with someone.
Financial Change: considering your cash flow, if your expenses are greater than your income, you should change that. Do not live beyond your means. I find out that the majority of Christians who are struggling in this day and age is more about their finances. Restructure your life in the way that you must save some money, maybe cut your eating habits, remove the unnecessary features in your phone, why do you need a cable TV will all those channels , can you a least have basic channels so you can save more.

Educational Change: we are living now in the age of informationa , acquiring information; therefore you must educate yourself to a higher level so you can face the giants of the market place. Don’t be satisfied with your high school diploma nor bachelor degree, you may think to pursue your master and your doctorate, remember we are living in the age of information.