Change

Pk’s Corner

September  2016

Ephesians 4:17 (NRSV)  ¹⁷ Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds.

There is a change in the air.  The weather will soon start cooling.  The kids have already started school.  Clothing styles are moving from keeping cool to keeping warm.  In a few months, our government will even change.  The question is, are you changing. ?

Knowing Christ is not about keeping things status quo.  Knowing Christ is about change.  Knowing Christ means you are putting on a new self and casting the old away. 

In Wesleyan terminology this is called going on to perfection.  These changes that take place are because God is working on you to bring you closer to him.  Our acceptance of Christ is the step we take then God takes it from there.  But it also means that we have to be willing to let go of our old life.

Each day a conscious decision must be made, do we fall back into our old ways, or do we let God continue to do his perfecting work on us.  Paul understood the temptation to those who wanted to fall back to the old ways.  Each and every person has within them the voice that tells us the old way was better.  We can choose to listen to that voice, or we can choose to keep Christ in our hearts.

God calls us and will keep calling us to have a deeper relationship with him.  That relationship shows in the way we live and the way we love one another.  It isn’t always easy, but every step we take with Christ brings us closer to him.

So, are you changing?

Amen