February 27, 2008

February 27, 2008

It is incredible how vastly different the climate of life can change in the course of twenty-four hours. Jesus said that each day was sufficient unto itself. What I get from that is this; every day is a unit that is to be lived and experienced, then tucked gently away each night and left somewhere in the land of night dreams and the subconscious to be logged as another example of grace and mercy. The Bible tells us that God’s mercy is new every morning. If God starts over with the mercy you and I will need to get through each new day, maybe we should follow His example and do the same.

I have had people tell me that approaching life in that manner is to simplistic and naïve. Maybe. Or maybe the hussle and bussle of frantically attempting to make every one happy, meet all the expectations, and juggle all of the tasks you have defined as crucial, maybe that’s too complex. I think it would be best to take another lesson from God; have an eternal plan with one-day-at-a-time application.

For instance, today I woke up to fifty degrees and overcast skies. Two hours and eight hundred miles later I stepped out into eighty degrees and sunshine. By the time another four hours had passed I was in the middle of tornados and seventy mile per hour winds. After a delayed flight, another four hours and another eight hundred miles I was in twenty degree weather and a snow covered landscape. Wow! See what I mean? In the course of a single day you can experience so many changes. By the way, how are you doing with the changes in your life?

One of the most common phrases of the New Testament is, “and it came to pass.” How do you handle living in a constant state of passage? Change is the most constant thing we will experience. If you resist change you create a negative tension that holds your life in a suppressed state. Every person who excels in life learns to accept change as the passage from glory to glory, and from faith to faith. When my middle child Tyler was an elementary student he struggled with change. He had to have the same bowl and spoon for his cereal every morning. He had to sit in the same seat at the table while he ate the cereal. He had to have his routine, his way. How are you doing with making room for change in your live to be welcomed instead of feared.

You are changing. Your world is changing. Everything is changing except the one thing that cannot change-Jesus Christ!