This is another wonderful devotional from David Jeremiah.
A New Year to Embrace Change
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Hebrews 11:8
A lot of us need a change of pace this year; but what we're really having trouble with is the
pace of change. All change -- even the good -- is hard. It involves adjustment, moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar, from the settled past into the unknown future. As Anatole France said, "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God. At the beginning of this new year, we confess with Joshua: "We have never been this way before." But our faithful, changeless Lord will show us the way to go, guide us at every juncture, bless us at every step, and provide goodness and mercy every day of our lives.
Let's not dig in our heels and cling to the past. Heed the words God gave to Joshua: "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you .... As I was with Moses, so I will be with you" (Joshua 3:5, 7).
Everyone is in favor of progress; it's change they don't like.In The Mentor
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