Topic: Dealing With The Difficulty Of Change

Change in life is difficult. We all want our times of change to be easier. No matter what our life circumstances may be, as long as we can get by with what we have, we prefer not to change. However, when we lose what we have then we try to change. Some people have to deteriorate before they grow, change, or get better. This requirement to deteriorate before we are willing to change is not always true, but usually true, especially for adults. Unfortunately, this deterioration factor related to change makes not wanting to change a huge barrier to our healing, wholeness, and restoration. To grasp the promise of healing, wholeness, and restoration, we must change or give up the old. We must give up the old illness, the old disability, the old attitudes, the old mindset, the old pain, the old suffering, and the old darkness. However, we resist change to such an extent we would rather sit in the pain of our darkness than go out into the newness of the Light. We would rather sit in the pain of our darkness and not change because of the fear and insecurity associated with change. The path of winning or the path of God requires change and change requires work. Giving up the old or changing means we no longer always insist on being right. Giving up the old or changing means we admit we make mistakes, perhaps we are mistake-laden. Giving up the old or changing means we forgive others and forgive ourselves. Giving up the old or changing into the kind of person God wants you to be means giving up and extending your life in new and vulnerable ways to experience His unconditional love. Giving up the old or changing in positive ways means not resisting the spiritual. Changing in positive ways means you give up the old secular will as you become a spiritual person doing the will of God. Giving up the old or changing in positive ways means abandoning your pride. Giving up the old or changing in positive ways requires you become meek, humble, gentle, and develop a spiritual humility. Giving up the old or changing in positive ways requires you to always strive to be in the middle ground between self-degradation and grandiosity. Giving up the old or changing in positive ways means you believe enough in your personal value as a child of God to want to live without emotional, spiritual, or physical pain.

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