"A Time For ALL Things..."
Change... no one likes change, no matter how we complain, murmur, and grumble about conditions or something that we feel needs to be changed, or done about such and such. When something is done, we continue to murmur, complain, and grumble when it effects us in our comfort zones. But as long as the change does not come near our door of what we think is our area (s) of tranquility, we are content to complain, murmur, and grumble and find fault (s), or play the blame game, as to why such and such needs to be changed, or what should be done or should not have been done, or its not right the way a thing is done, and it should have been this way or another.Yet, those who complain have no concrete strategies or creative ideas as to what or how a things should have been done, nor is there a volunteer to get it done for the sake of getting it done to bring about a positive change. No one seems to be the first to make the move toward change. There are those who enjoy complacency and mediocrity in the mist of their complaining and murmuring, as well as finding inner relief by complaining and murmuring... its chronic and habitual.
God teaches us that transformation occurs when there is a renewing of our minds, and there is a time and season for everything under the sun, which brings about change. Nothing stay the same, in the positive or negative movement and turning of life-cycles of change; our bodies change, our relationships change, our children change, our families change, our finances change, our friends change, our emotional and mental responses change, the times and seasons change from winter to spring, to summer to Fall… there is a time and season for all things under the heaven to make a change. Everything MUST, AND MAKES a change except, GOD.
All forms of change, whether large or small, or positive or negative are for the betterment of our well being, and our daily living when we surrender and accept, submit and co-operate with such experiences change brings.
Those who have ears to hear, listen to what God speaks about CHANGE that we experience in out life: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck (harvest) that which was planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down (tear/clear out) and a time to build up (restore); a time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away (get rid of ), and a time to gather what has been throw away together (bring back again); a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time for peace. What profits do you have from the work that you do? I have seen the travail (pain), that God has given to the sons and daughters of men to be exercised in it. God has made every thing beautiful in His own time, also He has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end…. That which has been is now, and that which is to be, has already been, and God requires that which is past."
THERE IS A TIME FOR CHANGE IN ALL THINGS!
Comments (9)
I agree, people want change but arenot able or willing to feel the fear, or the want to do the work on themselves that will lead to change... this could be studying, or being nicer to their husbands or even finding the truth where God is concerned and how to get to know him.
I read that book 'The Road less Travelled' years ago by psychiatrist Scott Peck , he said that 99per cent of people w ould rather stay stuck in their depressions, neurotic coping mechanisms than to face the reasons they were stuck in life, and change.. because the fear of change and the work involved was too difficult.
Good Blog
needed that you're an angel
Respectfully disagree. Sometimes those who complain know exactly how to fix the problem and how things should be done. The problem is often that they lack sufficient political power to get the folks messing up to listen to them in time.
Want a classic example? Global warming. The warning rumbles started way back in the 1960s at a time the fabled Northwest Passage was just a drunken and laughed at dream of Henry Hudson and his ilk. Canada had no real North coast. No one listened. Today the NW Passage exists and is actually used. Polar Bears are starving because there aren't enough icepacks with seal pups on them, the island of Tarawa is confronting rising seas, etc., etc., but still the politicians in power don't listen and see only a little water melting. Why it is melting and what the consequences of an ocean with diluted salt, and rising air temperatures will be still escapes them. There is a solution, but no one wishes to listen. Ce' la vie.