Today I’m grateful that I can change with the help of God.
Max Lucado puts it well in, “Grace for the Moment: A 365 Day Journaling Devotional” in January 21st entry called, “A Heart Like His”.
God wants us to be just like Jesus. Isn’t that good news? You aren’t stuck with today’s personality. You aren’t condemned to “grumpydom.” You are tweak able. Even if you’ve worried each day of your life, you needn’t worry the rest of your life. So what if you were born a bigot? You don’t have to die one.
Where did we get the idea we can’t change? From whence come statements such as, “It’s just my nature to worry.” or, “I’ll always be pessimistic. I’m just that way.”…Who says? Would we make similar statements about our bodies? “It’s just my nature to have a broken leg. I can’t do anything about it.” Of course not. If our bodies malfunction, we seek help. Shouldn’t we do the same with our hearts? Shouldn’t we seek aid for our sour attitudes? Can’t we request treatment for our selfish tirades? Of course we can. Jesus can change our hearts. He wants us to have a heart like his.
What a blessing it is to know that change is possible. If we are living with the cancer of bitterness we needn’t die with it. Jesus can give us a heart of love and forgiveness that will kill the cancer of bitterness. If we are hanging on to things of the past Jesus can help us to live in the present and let loose of the past that only hurts and interferes with our todays. As the poem says, you won’t find God in the past He isn’t, I was, and don’t look for Him in the future He isn’t, I will be, look for Him in the present because His name is, I Am.
I’m so grateful for where God has brought me from already and I look forward to where He is going to bring me to in my journey to become more and more like Jesus.
Let Jesus do the work He has in store for you to bring you into His likeness. We all must remember our place at the wheel. We are the clay and He is the potter, longing to mold and make us in His likeness.
Joy – A Fellow Sojourner & A Woman After God’s Own Heart!
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