TOMORROW’S SUNDAY

For the most part, we don’t like change. There are some things we know so well, we can do them with our eyes closed, and it would be a nightmare to imagine life where certain things didn’t always remain the same. If for example, the bathroom was always behind a different door, if the grass one day was blue and the sky was green. None of these changes would be welcome. And that is what brings us to our topic, the difficulty we have, when people change. It takes a lot of time to get to know people, and perhaps that is why we imagine that they should not change, but they do. If we want to sustain the relationship, that means we need to learn about the changes in their lives. We know that Christians will grow in faith, in love, and in service – it starts a little seed, it grows roots, it grows leaves, and in the end bears fruit. A Christian life is all about growing in Christ. Christians do not remain the same – it’s not that the changes are dra- matic, but they are there – even if we don’t notice them. And perhaps that is the real problem – we fail to notice how God is at work in us. And if we don’t see God at work in our lives, not only do we fail to give him thanks, but by failing to give him the credit, we fail to tell His story. Every time we repent of sin and ask forgiveness, we ask God to change us and help us so that we don’t do that again. Temptations we have overcome, that is a change, that is God at work in our lives. Things we have accomplished, that also is God at work in our lives. And these things happen so we can tell the story of God at work in our lives. While it is good to see God at work in our lives, and we thank God for the salvation he has given us – are we willing to see God at work in the lives of others? If not – we are in danger of becoming someone else’s thorn in the flesh – not leading people forward in faith, but leading them back to the flesh, back to sin and back to death.