Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Change = Movement = Growth

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

So let's keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision - you'll see it yet!   Philippians 3:15 msg

Change = Movement = Growth

When I think of seismic shifts and earthquakes, I don’t think of small changes.  I think of the scenes of earthquakes where there is loud rumbling, and the ground starts shaking and moving back and forth.  Next, the earth splits wide open leaving an enormous, gaping hole.  When Jesus comes into our lives it is a seismic shift. It creates big and small changes in our lives that create movement in the right direction – towards Jesus. These small changes are movements that lead to significant and far-reaching impact, just like an earthquake. Jesus comes into our lives and turns it inside out, creating a new creation in him. As we continue to move, more growth continues to happen.

If we let it, change propels us forward. If we resist it we will not grow. We can get comfortable and resist change but if we are not careful, we will stagnate in our walk. Change can be scary, but when God is changing us, he is with us every step of the way.  We don't move outside of him. We exist in him and have our very being in him. 

Every day my whole existence is in him. 

I don’t move apart from him. 

I don’t get out of bed apart from him. 

I don’t put one foot in front of the other apart from him. 

I don’t breathe expect by the air he put into my lungs. 

I can’t stand through the trials except in his strength. 

I don’t know joy but through his gifts. 

I don’t have hope except through the grace and redemption he has given. 

The same is true for you. 

Are there seismic shifts happening in your life? 

Are you following his lead, walking the Jesus way, as he continues to make changes? Or are you resisting the movement?

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