Change-Good or Bad?

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."

-Hebrews 13:8

"Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead."

-Philippians 3: 13 b

"For It is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose."

-Philippians 2:13

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            I cannot help but have these words find my friend long ago still ring in my ears.

            "It's good that we all changing/growing because if we weren't God can it work in us."so in that case change is good. And change is also good because Jesus is always the same so nothing really changes there. There's no change. He is always the same so why not think about that doing changes and you might not even notice the change.

             But what if the change is good and you do want to notice it? I mean changes from someone passing to changing styles to teach kids? How do you know when to remember the change and when not to? I think we remember whether or not we want to. It's not up to us. I know I've remembered some of the changes because of the life lessons I've learned from them. Here are just some to name a few:

-passing of grandparents

-losing or changing jobs

-letting go of people

-this pandemic.

               Through all of them I have learned a little bit more about myself and became stronger which is a good change too. I guess when I think about a bad change it is about this pandemic mostly. When I say bad I mean bad as in can't go to church, kids at home learning online, people fighting and dying, and staying distant and no more hugging and oh yeah the masks where you see no smiles.

                 This year (2020) there has been more chains than I can take. It's always back and forth. Nothing is routine anymore. No one can make up their minds. Nothing is set and stone. I miss those days. I miss the normal I know and was born into. This is the biggest change I felt in my whole 32 years. If not the biggest, definitely the worst because it affects everyone not just a region or a place.

                 It could also be a lot of little changes in one big change. I don't know how many little ones I've had in this pandemic yet one thing still remains the same and that is Jesus. So I still don't know if it changes good or bad. There is one thing I know though and that is God is still the same through everything. He is teaching me this for a reason but I'm still not quite sure what that reason is yet. I just know that I have to get ease to change whether it is good or bad because each one weighs out the other. I've always noticed if a bad change comes along It is for a good reason or a good change follows it.

                 All this to say that things will change whether we want them to or not. We just have to remember that Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever. We also have to remember that we don't look back but to look forwards. I know it's tricky but if we can remember those two things we can get through the hard and bad changes.