Why are we such stubborn creatures. You always hear about the old stubborn mule, but what about us. Are we not difficult to handle. I bet God looks at us and thinks we are the most stubborn of all the animals. I think we become all the more difficult when we need to CHANGE.
Changing is not something we take easy to. Unless it is a familiar change, like changing shirts or changing underwear. But what about changing shoes, not like Mr. Rogers; but out with the old shoes and in with the new pair. This to me is a difficult transition, I wear shoes until they fit my feet so perfectly and then when I get a pair I immediately do not like them because they are not formed to my feet.
But what about our LIFE CHANGE; it is very difficult when we are trying to change into good christiains. When our life is so easily formed around our desires and our WANTS. What happens when we become followers of Christ. Boy does he mess our nice fitting lifestyle all up. Now its not only about me, but about >OTHERS<. This is a hard transition. Now its not does this make me feel good, but does this make Jesus proud.
2 Corinthians 5:17
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Am I truly a new creation, or do I just have a re-built engine. I sometimes still feel like the piece of run down junk I was before I started believing in Christ. Sometimes I feel the engine is running much better than before and then i feel I need a complete tune-up.
So how do we change? How do we let Christ change us? Are we intentionally and purposefully looking for ways that Christ is letting us know something isn't right, that we need to somehow change. Or are we going through the motions of " I am new, but I just feel and drive the same way as I did when I was a old rundown beater".
I am going to leave it with this thought
If Jesus is living in us, how can other around us tell?
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