Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes

EXAMPLE:- if your car is stuck in the snow or mud and you continually spin your tires all you are going to do is go deeper and deeper in the same place, but if you get out of the car and place some salt or something under your tires that will give it something to grab onto – that is called traction – then when you step on the gas pedal and your tires begin to spin because it has something to grab onto it begins to cause your car to move and soon you are no longer stuck. Unless there is a change you will be stuck in that rut.

Many people are stuck in a rut in their lives they continually do the same thing over and over again only going deeper and deeper into the rut they are currently in. If you watch shows like hoarders and intervention you see people that are stuck in a rut in their lives and unless there is a change they will literally die as a result of the rut they are stuck in. They refuse to change because their mindset is that I am comfortable or I can control what I am doing and they are fearful of change.

Woodrow Wilson’s gave a very wise warning: “If you want to make enemies try to change something.”

Change can be very threatening. WHY – because change will bring with it a level of uncertainty and because of that uncertainty people develop an attitude or spirit of fear – 2nd Timothy 1:7 says “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind”. Therefore we should not be fearful of change. However, because of this attitude or spirit of fear people sometimes unconsciously and sometimes consciously become ineffective and irrelevant and ultimately die all because they refused to change.

It happens with individuals, marriages, businesses, organizations, and unfortunately with some churches. WATCH THIS:- Even the people of Christ's day who were looking for and expecting the promised Messiah didn't accept him when he came because he didn't come the way they expected him to come, nor did he do what they wanted him to do (that is, overthrow the oppressing Roman rule). As a result they rejected Christ, the Messiah, and clung to their irrelevant religious traditions and missed out on the opportunity to change. Traditions and rituals are effective as long as they are relevant. Refusal to change is called stubbornness and the Bible talks about stubbornness some 28 times and 19 more times it uses the word "stiff-necked," these words are talking about people that refuse to change. Understand God cannot allow people to lead comfortable lives when stubbornness separates them from Him. God wants everyone to let go of stubbornness and return to Him – in other words change.

While truth never changes, times change, people change, situations change, and methods change so when our traditions are no longer relevant, we need to be open to change – WHY - for to live is to grow; to grow is to change.

It is crazy to continue to do the same thing and think something different is going to happen.