If we are honest with ourselves, most of us do not like change. We become comfortable with the way things are. It may not be fulfilling or satisfying, but it is familiar. Change means dealing with the unknown, and as people who need to know, we do not deal well with the unknown. So, we often miss what God has for us when we come into His family. Being in the family of God affords us a lot of things but we do not want to change to receive them. So often we miss the mark of receiving our blessings. I am not talking about material blessings, but I am referring to those spiritual places that He desires to take us. Places where our mind set and attitudes we have before change will not let us go.

2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature, old things have passed away and all things have become new. This requires change. God, in the Spirit, has already done the work. How can I say that? Well, the scripture says if we are in Christ we are a new creature, old things have passed away, not passing, but have passed away and all things have become new, not becoming, but become new. So God has already done the work. We must go through the process of conversion. Remember when Jesus spoke to Peter and told him that Satan desired to sift him and Christ said but he had prayed for him and after he was converted he should strengthen his brethren.

When we come to Christ there are a lot of thought patterns, attitudes, desires, and many other things that we have acquired as we have lived our lives. All of that needs to be changed.

We live beneath our privileges when we do not begin to embrace the changes God is working in our lives. We have ideas of who we think we are and how we think we are and when someone tries to show us that this is all wrong, we become offended or angry because we do not want to hear that we need to change.

What is change? Webster says change is to make different, to give a totally different form or appearance, to transform. Scripture tells us in Romans 12:2 “Be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. In other words, change your mind.”

We have lived our lives for years being led by our flesh. Now that has to change. We have got to learn how to allow the spirit man to lead us through the power of the Holy Ghost. This amounts to a change that is unfamiliar and even uncomfortable, so we shy away from it. Many of us want to be in charge and will feel like this is giving over control. Not so. The Holy Spirit will only do what you agree to. We always have the control. How? It is because the choice is always left up to us to say yes or no.

As we are looking at the season change and watching the beautiful change of the leaves on the trees and the beautiful change of the sky, we can be thankful we serve a God who loves us not just the way we are but loves us too much to leave us as we are. So in this season of Thanksgiving we need to thank God for the things He has done and for the things that He is about to do in our lives.