The Result of Change
Keep this in mind: Change transports the present into the future and demands a response. Too often that response requires further change from us. It is a fact that needed change may bring positive activity: excitement, anticipation, and energetic planning. Then again it may bring a negative reaction: uncertainty, stress and emotional shutdown. How we react to change has greater consequences to us than we may realize.
What you read or listen to has the ability to change the way you think or change the way you respond to a situation in a time of crisis. What you read, listen to and watch the most will probably cause you to change or transform into something else. The creator God knew this when He created us.
Paul wrote in the Constitution Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
New information in a mind can cause it to change the way it reacts or responds to a situation or a crisis. How you handle a situation is based upon what is in your mind that you have acquired. All information will cause you to change, either for the negative or the positive. It's up to the individual to accept or reject the information.
Now the effects of failing to implement positive change to improve one's life can range from someone missing out on a single rewarding experience to not fulfilling his or her entire purpose for living.
Now the person reacting negatively to change experiences loss. Mostly, it is the loss of potential. It is the loss of what that person could have been or done by responding constructively to change. This is why it is essential for us to learn to oversee change rather than become its victim and why we must initiate change rather than be left behind by it.
This ongoing dynamic of change, therefore, is one of the most important factors of human life. How we relate to change has a significant impact on our quality of life and whether or not we accomplish what we are meant to be during our time on earth. Understanding how to view, respond to and benefit from change is vital to a well-balanced and fulfilled life. In all of this, we must learn how to trust God through the process of change.
King David put it this way in the Constitution: Psalm 48:14 For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death.
Jesus made this statement in the Constitution: John 16:13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
What you read or listen to has the ability to change the way you think or change the way you respond to a situation in a time of crisis. What you read, listen to and watch the most will probably cause you to change or transform into something else. The creator God knew this when He created us.
Paul wrote in the Constitution Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
New information in a mind can cause it to change the way it reacts or responds to a situation or a crisis. How you handle a situation is based upon what is in your mind that you have acquired. All information will cause you to change, either for the negative or the positive. It's up to the individual to accept or reject the information.
Now the effects of failing to implement positive change to improve one's life can range from someone missing out on a single rewarding experience to not fulfilling his or her entire purpose for living.
Now the person reacting negatively to change experiences loss. Mostly, it is the loss of potential. It is the loss of what that person could have been or done by responding constructively to change. This is why it is essential for us to learn to oversee change rather than become its victim and why we must initiate change rather than be left behind by it.
This ongoing dynamic of change, therefore, is one of the most important factors of human life. How we relate to change has a significant impact on our quality of life and whether or not we accomplish what we are meant to be during our time on earth. Understanding how to view, respond to and benefit from change is vital to a well-balanced and fulfilled life. In all of this, we must learn how to trust God through the process of change.
King David put it this way in the Constitution: Psalm 48:14 For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death.
Jesus made this statement in the Constitution: John 16:13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.