Proverbs
3:5-6 Trust
in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In
all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Let’s face it, nobody likes
change. It can be costly, painful, uncomfortable, maddening and downright awful
to experience change. But change is what people need. Everyone needs to change.
As sinners facing eternity with a holy God, change is of the utmost importance.
Having faced the decision to change we can be sure that there is someone who can assist us. God, himself, will make change possible for us. The Holy Spirit is the agent who brings change to us and makes it possible for us to change. With His help we can make plans to change and begin the process. Change requires our participation and effort. When things seem impossible to accomplish the Holy Spirit will make it possible for us to change.
Learn to change. Prepare your minds for action. God wants us to think as He thinks. Prepare your will to be self-controlled. God requires that we soberly face the work ahead. Prepare your eyes to focus. God expects us to see grace as the avenue to our change.
Transformation comes also from having the right attitude.
You can make a plan but if you are focused on your own resources for making
change occur, you will fail. God understands completely what needs to happen
and how change can occur. Transformation entails your looking to Him in prayer
to guide and enable you to change.
Peter was told by Jesus to “Follow me!” Only in following
Christ would Peter find the life and power to live a full life. Peter was
changed by the Holy Spirit. In his letter Peter says that planning is an
integral part of change. “Therefore,
preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on
the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
(1 Peter 1:13)
