Keeping the Change

As I sit today I contemplate the inevitable question of why I believe. I have come up with 2 things. One I will be moved to say nothing. I have learned that sometimes the best way to explain yourself is to say nothing at all. Sometimes it will be unnecessary to say anything and let your actions speak for you.

The second, the change. Out of all the things I could say I think that the most profound is that my life is not the same as it was before.

As the song by Brandon Heath states, I'm not who I was. The change not just in physical things but in what I do, how I do it, my dreams and goals, and most important is the change of my thinking.

While I am far from the perfection that God has envisioned for me my mind has been changed. I worry less and less, I am apt to do more, give more, think about the full consequences of my actions, think about others and look for ways to be more Christ like. I constantly dwell on Him, ask what he thinks, what he wants and how can I be a force for his will.

So while that person may not have known me before, after stating that there has been changed I have a quarter of a life time to reflect to that person on how I was before and how I am now. The differences are stunning and vivid. Things I do now I would not have done before. Things I think now would not have occurred to me before. I have matured (some) and it has made a big difference in my life. Jesus has made a big difference in my life.

I plan on keeping these changes and I look forward to more. The biggest change is that I look forward to the challenges. I look to seek out ways to expand myself, love more and humble myself. Though I still have not gotten the full grasp of that word, it is one of the biggest things on my list of things to change. That is the icing on the pie, I want to change. And I want to change not into things of the world but to cultivate the fruit of the spirit. Those things have become the most important.