Something is Always Happening!

This coming Sunday, we are going to look at Part 3 of the series called “The Struggle Is Real.”  Something is always happening!

There are a lot of changes in life, but I want us to look at the kinds of changes you cannot control. Of course, everybody would agree that the world is changing. The only thing you can predict accurately about the future is this: it is going to change. Tomorrow will be different from today. We do not know what it is going to be, but we do know for certain that change is an inevitable part of life. So, you must learn how to deal with it.

The problem that we face today in this generation is that the speed of change, the scope of change, the type of change, and the size of change are all increasing. You notice that things are changing faster than they used to. And it is getting faster and faster.

I know for certain that change is inevitable. Nothing stays the same. On this planet, everything changes. God even told us this was going to happen, way back in the first book of the Bible. In Genesis 8, the Bible says this, verse twenty-two: “As long as the earth remains, there’s going to be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.”  In other words, God instituted change. Things do not stay the same. It gets hot and, it gets cold. It gets summer; it gets winter. There are seasons in life. Things change. There’s a day and a night every twenty-four hours. Change is inevitable. 

First,  there is no growth without change. If you are going to grow spiritually, if you are going to grow financially, if you want to grow relationally and intellectually, if you want your business to grow, if you want our church to grow, whatever you want to grow means it is going to have change.  A person who wants his business to grow without it changing is like a woman who says, “I want to have a baby, but I don’t want my tummy to get bigger and go through labor.”  It is not going to happen. There is pain involved in growth. They do not call it labor for nothing. There is no growth without change.

Second, there is no change without loss. Every new beginning is the ending of something else. And every end is a new beginning. That is what life is all about. Your life is a series of endings and beginnings, endings and beginnings, graduations and commencements, graduations and commencements… on and on. There is no change without loss.

What I am trying to share is that I must let go of what I have and  grab on to what I do not. Most people do not realize that. To grow, I must let go of what I have gotten and grab on to what I have not. 
This is a test of God. It is a test of your faith. Will you trust him? I must let go of what I have and hold on to what I do not have to move on.  Growth requires change, and change requires loss. You must let go. You cannot expect to keep doing the same old thing and get different results. That is one of the fundamental principles of recovery that we teach. The insanity is doing the same thing year after year after year after year and expecting next year to be different. It is not going to be any different unless you are different in terms of your personality, your growth, and your development.

There is no growth without change! Think about this. Learn what God’s Word says about change.

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