Be the Change

 

Friday, April 8, 2022

God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind.  Has he ever spoken and failed to act?  Has he ever promised and not carried it through?  Numbers 23:19

Every time I turn around these days the word change invades my hearing or seeing, and presses my nausea gland.  I suppose it is a knee-jerk, some visceral repugnancy to another less-than-thought-out-what-it-means mantra being paraded as some moral high-ground, when, in all probability, it’s just another foolish mantra spawned by somebody’s social engineering agenda to gain a few more hits on social media low territory.

“Be the Change” is presumably intended to, uhh, change our minds with some inspired thinking that reframes and reshapes the future to agree with a group’s (or even a single person’s) moral outrage.  It takes minor deficiencies in the behavior of a previous generation and exchanges them for a new set of equally (if not greater) flawed social, moral, or economic sociological preferences. 

I am not against change.  Indeed, every sermon I preach CALLS for it.  Conversely, invoking the change mantra because the newest idea needs an emotional hanger to start a revolution is hardly more than self-agrandizing sociological rearranging.  Simply put, it’s a matter of tearing down what has been, because that is a quick way to get one’s way.  It’s what happens in the nursery, when that other kid has something that you want.  Framing a mantra for that would be:  He (or she) has it, I don’t, and that’s not fair.  I believe that was Cain’s motive concerning Abel. 

So, if we are not to replicate Cain’s flawed and detestable behavior, perhaps we ought hold up the creepy crawly ugliness of it to the light.  That is the way to make bugs of the night scatter, isn’t it?  How shall we do that?  How shall we put “change” back into its’ rightful place?  I believe it starts with listening to our Creator…the one who changed everything (or, more accurately changed nothing INTO everything).  God inspired the apostle Paul to put it this way:

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.  Romans 12:2

The whole notion of change, given from the Author of Life, begins with our transformation from those who prefer darkness, to becoming persons who are light-bearing, will-of-God-seeking, lovers of truth.  And, when there is nothing more important than God’s truth, the prospect of being set-free from old lies, and new ones alike, becomes more than a possibility; it is a done deal.

For You Today

“Being change” is a step-down from that for which you were created.  After all, isn’t change what you have left over after the whole has been dismembered? 

So…is it Be the Change for you….or Be Transformed?

You chew on that as you hit the Rocky Road; have a blessed day!  

[1] Title image: Pixabay.com   Unless noted, Scripture quoted from The New Living Translation^©