Just Between You, Me, & God 3/26/2012

Change is inevitable. Don’t believe me; take a look at some of your grade school pictures or your High School yearbook, then take a quick glance in the mirror. I rest my case. I did this little exercise myself and it’s rather hard to believe that the bare headed, spectacled, old gentleman with dunlaps disease sitting in front of this monitor once had long curly red hair with bell bottoms, a 30 inch waist and perfect vision. Still not convinced; then ask any parent of a new born. Everything changes, and I’m not just talking about the diapers. You’re no longer your own person, you belong to someone else and they belong to you. You have responsibilities that multiply every day and with every situation. You don’t sleep the same, eat the same or sometimes even have the same friends. People with kids understand and sympathize with people who have kids where as others just don’t understand, it doesn’t make sense to them. Have faith new parents; from my vantage point you’ll live through it and it will be worth it. I do recommend having your grandchildren first if you can, that’s a whole other experience. However, there are some things in our lives that are unwelcome and we would love to change them if we only could, erase them as if they never happened. We have no way of turning back the hands of time but we can change the direction we are headed. The world, however, has a long memory about the things we do wrong and a very short memory for anything we happen to do right. Jesus offers us help and instruction in how to change. In Matthew 18:3 Jesus tell us, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” In order to truly change we must stop what we’re doing and start everything over again, we must be reborn in Jesus. Remember the new parents I mentioned earlier, well we must become like the child, completely dependent on Jesus; we must give our lives over to Him. When we do and when we repent or change the way we live and make Jesus the center of our lives, then an amazing thing also happens. All of those mistakes that the world tends to remember and hold over us will be removed from God’s sight by the only one that can remove them and that is Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17 assures us, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” If you have decided to change your life and to follow Jesus, please let me know so that I may pray for your journey. God bless you, Pastor Dean

Pastor Dean is the Ministries & Outreach Pastor for LHF.