Change the channel!
People love change. Don’t think so? Just try to watch TV with with a family of four or more. You don’t always find a show that everyone likes. Our family changes the channel constantly. Why? Because we don’t like watching boring commercials. There’s so much flyin’ around the political scene shouting for change. It seems to be the easiest platform to build but the hardest one to really execute. “Everybody wants change,” one side will say. But do we really want change? I guess if we really take a hard look at our lives, we will discover that we really do want change. We just want change that makes us happy and doesn’t require us to sacrifice or make radical changes in the way that we live. There is no question that we need to change.
Jesus was all about change. No, really He was. It doesn’t take you long as read through the Gospels to see that Jesus changed the way everybody looked at religion. Check this out–no more synagogue, no more alter sacrifices, no more high priests (just The High Priest), no more “Jews only,” no more external judging but internal inspection. You can’t read about Jesus and accept His message without embracing change. The fact of the Gospel is that we all have to come to a place where we change. Our individual change is either a reflection of our selfish “me” focus or of our life lived by Christ (Galatians 2:20).
But aren’t there some things that never change? Yes! God’s heart for people never changes. God’s plan for how we are to live never changes. God’s plan for marriage never changes. Take a look at Matthew 19. Jesus responds to a stupid question from the Pharisees as they try, once again, to “trick Him.” But when they ask a question about Moses, divorce and marriage, Jesus doesn’t argue with Moses. He goes back to the original design that God laid out for marriage. He responds to their questions with a question (as he so often did). He asked them if they had read what is recorded in Genesis about the beginning of marriage?
The change that many of us need in our own lives is the change that points us back to what we know about God and His plan for us. Take time today to go back and read.
