Living life teaches us change is inevitable. Living life also shows we resist change – even changes that make us/things better. But the reality of change teaches the truth there is no change if there is no change.

If you want tomorrow to be different from yesterday, however, you must do something different today – different meaning better. In the modern vernacular:  Same ol’ some ol’ don’t git it! This lesson was taught about a year ago so I’ll be brief.

Change takes place at one of three levels:

Superficial change is temporary change at best. Going through our daily routine we may recognize a need for making various changes. We may even tell ourselves it would be good to make them, but the thought easily slips our mind and our motivation. Thus superficial change becomes another habit we need to correct – but later. Yes, this is a first cousin to procrastination, but we’ll look at this next time.

Situational change is also a temporary change. We reason if we can change our situation things will be better. And temporarily things may be; but eventually the situations we attempt to avoid find us. So we try to hide again but to no avail.

To win this battle we must make a substantial change, that is, a change that rises above the patterns of our former superficial and situational levels of non-action and re-action. We invoke this level of change when we commit our selves and our behavior to God in prayer.

Because it seems to be human nature to resist change, this is not an easy course of action – but this action puts all of God’s Resources into motion on our behalf as evidenced by the following passages of Scripture:

God’s Hotline:  Jeremiah 33:3:  “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

God’s Promised Provisions:  Philippians 4:19:  “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

In this verse all means all. The Greek word pas:  a class of nouns or adjectives having the same type of inflectional form; apparently a primary word:  all, any, every, the whole.

CAUTION:  Doubt cancels every promise in God’s Word.

Next time: Procrastination:  What it is and what it isn’t