TIME TO CHANGE

Here we are at that time of year when the time changes once again. You know, "Spring forward," "Fall back" Daylight savings time. It's actually only a small sign of how much life changes as time goes on. Life is definitely different for ever person, each of us have our own particular view of life, what it should be and how it should be lived. I wanted to share some thoughts on living!

Sign on a storefront in Great Britain: 

"We have been established for over one hundred years and have been pleasing and

displeasing customers ever since. We have made money and lost money, suffered 

the effects of coal nationalization, coal rationing, Government control, and bad

payers. We have been cussed and discussed, messed about, lied to, held up, robbed,

and swindled. The only reason we stay in business is to see what happens next."

If we ever hope to make it through this thing called “life,” then we are going to have to have 

the right attitude. I tend to think of life as an adventure, while I know folks who think of life as 

only something to be endured until something better comes along. Those folks never seem 

truly happy! They are always worrying about what bad thing is going to happen to them next. 

Melody and I have been married for 45 years and often talk about the great adventure it has 

been for us. That doesn’t mean that we haven’t had our up’s and down’s, our have and have 

not times in our life, but I think it speaks to how we view life in general. 

We have a faith in God that lets us believe that clouds do have silver linings and things do 

really work out for the good (Romans 8:28). Our faith allows us to see things differently 

from much of the world. We believe the promises we find in the scripture that God will 

provide for the necessities of our life if we make the effort to follow his word, 

(everything else is a bonus). 

Jesus speaking in the “sermon on the mount” tells us in Matthew 6:25ff   “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?” Go ahead and read the rest of the passage, it’s powerful and will test your faith to believe it, but then that’s one of the purposes of life isn’t it? To test our faith and see just how much we really do trust God to keep his word?

So, how do you deal with life? Is it an adventure or a burden to be endured? On a movie title a while back, were the words: “And the adventure continues!” It may seem strange, but I pray that for your life the adventure may continue or maybe more, and that you may view life as an adventure looking to Christ for your strength. Take a look at Hebrews 12: 1-2 about running the race to see what it’s all about..

May God continue to bless you with a sense of adventure and then some...