Change Is Constant

Change Is Constant

Nothing is as permanent as change. Be aware that change is constant. As for me, I don’t trust anybody. What do I mean by this? I don’t trust my friends, to the point, if I don’t see them, then I cannot make it. I don’t trust them deep enough because everybody’s temporary. Like, your husband, your wife, your children, your relatives and your friends are temporary. Change will come, like death.

Our problem is we live as if this is not going to change. What do we do, we live as if we can live without them. I love them, but I have to imagine life without them, just in case. Enjoy the moments, but we still have to calculate and anticipate the possibilities that people might be recalled (go to heaven). We have to imagine those periods in life and emotional experiences, so when it happens, it doesn’t influence us or hit us hard.

We don’t want to expect nothing to change because the only thing that is guaranteed is change. In Ecclesiastes 3:1, when it’s our time, we deliver. Change is inevitable, like your weight from 95 pounds to 150 pounds. Change is beautiful. All change is crisis. Change will come. We prepare and get ready for it. Some crisis is self-produced, and others are not caused by us.

The key to life is mastering the change of crisis. Managing it properly. We can run from it or we can let it run us. We have to manage it. We manage the crisis or change, so we can benefit from it. It doesn’t destroy us. We have to expect change. Disappointment is only possible, where the expectation is present. To minimize disappointment, we need to minimize expectation. Keep our expectations low. For example, they don’t buy their grave plot. It’s cheaper to buy our grave plot now. Sometimes people fear that if they prepare, they expect that something might happen to them. When in fact, when we prepare for it, the disappointment level will be low, when it happens.

Unexpected change. We can’t control the crisis. We rehearse the future, so we can deal with the present. Like Jesus. He said, “They will crucify me, they will bury me and I will rise on the third day and you will be persecuted. (Mark 9:31, John 15:20-21, 19:18) However, do not be afraid, I have overcome the system or the world.” (John 16:33) The Bible says, the disciples became very sad. He was rehearsing their future. They will be whipped, jailed and persecuted. Not a nice prophecy, but He said, “Be of good cheer!” He said this, so when it happens, we will not be offended by Jesus. Expect and prepare for the worse, so we will not be disappointed or sad. Remember, one good thing about a crisis or change everything and every test are temporary. God bless you!

Notes: Crisis defined in detail. A crisis is literally the circumstances, an event or a situation affecting you and also affecting your environment over you have no cause and no direct reason for it being against you and you are victimized by it. You are not responsible for it. (Dr. Myles Munroe)

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