Time for Change

Most people don't like change.  We like to hold onto the familiar and traditions.  Some familiarity and some traditions are good and worth holding onto, but some call for change.  If we are holding onto the familiar, but it's keeping us from growing (for example: friends who still act the same at age 40 as they did at age 20) then we definitely need change.  Perhaps modern time has out-grown tradition.  A house wife always cut off the ends of her roast before she placed it in the pan to go into the oven.  One day her husband saw her do this and inquired as to why she did this?  She replied: my mother did it and so did her mother, it's like a family tradition.  He asked why did your mother and her mother cut off the end of the roast before placing it in the pan?  She said she didn't know she just followed suit.  She said she would call her mother and ask.  She asked her mother and her mother asked her mother.  Come to find out that grandmother cut the ends of her roast off to place in the pan because back then there wasn't a big enough pan made to accommodate a large roast.  What are you still doing just because mama and them did it?  Change is good, it brings balance to our lives.  I use to hate change, but I had to  learn change the hard way, but it blessed me.  Now I embrace it.  Recognize when it is a time for change and make it.

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; (Isaiah 43:19A)

The Power of Love

Love is a small, four letter word with big power.  We must determine in our minds and our hearts to love God and each other.

Isn't it interesting how at such a blessed time of year tensions run high and so does crime.  This is the time of year, if not any other, that we should, and must love more.  We need to pray on our knees and not prey on man kind.  

Have you ever seen people act their worst when a love one dies.  Some funerals have been turned out by tensions running high.  Sure people are upset about losing their love one, but that is not what the fighting is usually about.  When loved ones gather together on such an occasion they should be united, encouraging each other to stand the test of time, you know - loving on each other, but instead they are fighting over the dead persons money and belongings.

Love is a function and not a feeling.  Love is an action word.  We like to say it, but nine times out of ten our actions don't follow through.  Most people don't know what real love is.  Real love is not selfish and doesn't hurt.

God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, that who ever believed in Him should not die, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind  (Matt. 22:37).  Love your neighbor as you would love yourself (Matt. 22:39). These are the two great commandments!

When we learn to love based on the above scriptures, the Word of God, then we will love the right way.