Embrace need for change

WHENEVER time demands the need to change, people tend to react in four different ways:

First are those who resist change; second are those who try to flee from change; the third tend to ignore change; and the last are those who embrace change.

There are also the hard way and the easy way in facing change.

The hard way is where we are forced to change. If we are slow to change, the real world forces us to rethink into making adjustments, which are not always pleasant.

For example, if a man marries a girl whom his parents do not approve of, then their relationships get strained.

The parents, on one hand, will be forced to accept the girl because he is their son. The girl, on the other hand, can never forget his parents’ initial rejection.

If they had accepted her from the start, the relationships between parents, son and daughter-in-law would have been good.

Change can be exhilarating when we take up the challenge to change before being forced to do so.

When we are at peak performance and satisfied, everybody will grow, learn and change. No one like to be stuck and remain stagnant in life.

It is God’s task to reform us but we have to allow it to happen.

This requires recognising that our pain is due to the sorrow we ourselves have taken into our hearts, while we were ignorant of the laws of life.