Changes Are Good

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    Changes are good, even the tough ones. God in His infinite wisdom, wants
all of us, to be comfortable with change. I am not saying that we will like it,
but we can become comfortable with it.
    Why should we be comfortable with change?
1)    Change is going to happen, there is nothing we can do about it. Children
    grow up and move away. People get older and die, including our family.
    We have no control over anything that happens around us, our job, our
    income, our very life depends on others. We can't control someone else's car,
    we can't control what others will do or say. Our choice is, to be comfortable
    with change or be miserable because we can't control the changes.
        What we can do, is know the One in control of our changes!
2)    Change is hard work! Constantly changing with the ebbs and flows of life
    is tiring. Change can and will wear us down, if we let it. Depression, anxiety,
    obsessive/compulsive disorder are rampant in todays society.
    Why?
    A lot of our mental anguish is caused by wanting to control change. I still
    struggle with the depression that comes with not feeling productive, while
    I have been recuperating from my work injuries. I don't handle change very
    well either.
3)    Change can drive us mad or help us grow. This is regardless of how it
    effects us initially. Initially change causes us to feel uneasy and unsure of
    ourselves. God does His greatest works in our lives, when we are weak
    and unsure of ourselves. Paul talks about our weakness and God's strength
    in Paul's writings. Paul was spiritually at his strongest, when he had to
    totally rely on God.
4)     God wants us to change! God, in fact, will force us to change, by the
    circumstances that He allows to happen to His people. God, like a loving
    Father, chastises us into change. I had a youth minister once that referred
    to this chastising as " A Divine Spanking". God corrects His children.
    God will guide into the changes of our lives and bring us out, out on the
    other side of change, as different people. A people better equipped for
    His Devine Purpose.

    Learn to embrace change, because change is part of God's Plan for your
life and mine. Pray for me, as I pray for you, because I definitely have trouble
with this also!