The philosophy of change

ByPastor Rufus Ajiboye Reading Time: 4 minutes
Greetings to you, dear friends! I welcome you to „Daily Word for Spiritual Edification”! May God’s grace follow you through this day! I thank God for the opportunity to share with you the word of revelation God has placed in my heart. Today I would like to speak to you about the philosophy of change.It is quite often that we oppose changes; we resist any changes because we are creatures of habit. If something is new and unusual for us, we don’t like it. Is that the truth? Whatever is unusual to us scares us. We love the comforts of life and if something upsets our comfortable position, we start to fight it with all of our strength.Nevertheless God calls every person to go through changes. Most of the time God calls us to change our ways, to think and act differently; when that happens, our very beings screams and fights it. We oppose changes, because we do not understand that Christian living and becoming the disciple of Jesus Christ is impossible without changes. Life of a Christian – from the beginning and till the end – is the way of changes and growth. So we must be open for changes and allow God to transform us.My desire is that every person who reads these daily messages would give the people around them reason to be pleasantly surprised seeing the positive changes the Lord is making in his or her life. God is able to change our lives fundamentally and thoroughly. Do you believe it to be possible?The truth is that we need to be changed because we are not perfect. Is there anyone among you who believes to have reached the state of perfection and is in no need of any further changes? I don’t think any honest person that has common sense can say that about himself. We can agree with the wonderful words of Apostle Paul that are written in the Epistle to Philippians: 
«Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you» (Philippians, 3: 12-15).
 None of us have attained perfection. Every one of us still need to change in our personal lives in order to grow worthy of “the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”.The only One who does not change is the Lord God. He needs no changes, because He is the measure of perfection. God is perfect. His thoughts and principles do not change; His feelings are always the same. Those things that concern God do not change. So in order to become like God we need to change.God desires for us to be transformed and changed into the image of Jesus Christ. That is the only way for us to be truly happy in this life. God knows that we are not able to change ourselves; so He is gradually working in us and changing us as we cooperate with Him. God has many ways to change us. That is what I call God’s philosophy of change.Here I want to point out that God is more interested in our character than in our comfortable life. I know that such a statement bothers and confuses many people. But we have to face this truth. I would like to repeat that God is more interested in our character than in our comfort. From the very beginning of the Christian walk and till the very end of it – changes are one unavoidable component of our lives. God calls us to welcome changes! The goal of these changes is the transformation of our character.If you are not ready to change and resist any possible alterations then you are not ready to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. We will talk about it tomorrow.May God abundantly bless you today!Pastor Rufus Ajiboye

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