"Can you break a $20?"
Change is that monetary category that is made to feel “lesser
than”. If you’re holding a fifty or
hundred dollar bill, you’re enjoying the feeling and don’t really want it broken. But once it’s broken, the smaller
denominations and ensuing change just aren't quite the same. Change is something that we sometimes leave
as a restaurant tip. Perhaps drop it in
the pail for a busker or easily say “keep the change”.
Change is leftovers.
What was once whole is now broken.
The results are change.
Kind of like life.
We tend to look for a change after we’ve been spent. After we’ve been broken, used, exhausted, fed
up. We then look for change.
I’m tired of this hairstyle—time for a change. I’m bored with my long-term, full time 10+
year career—time for a change.
I’m tired of __________________ (insert your own boredom of the moment)--
Time for change.
No wonder why we’re so reluctant to make a change. We fear the unknown; what may
lie around the bend.
When we go into change with a negative attitude, we feel the
negative all throughout the change.
But then we see the results.
And they’re usually pretty spectacular.
Before Jesus, we’re messed up.
Ugly. Rude. Selfish. Inconsiderate. Unloving.
Unloveable. Unworthy.
But when we finally let go and surrender completely to Him??
We’re cleaned up.
Beautiful. Kind. Self-less.
Considerate. Loving. Loveable.
Worthy.
We’re changed and not left over.
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