Take action to change

This is the last in the mini series "God has a plan for your life" - so it isn't about change for changes sake. It is about changing to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. To do this we need to align our heart with what love requires of us and then take action to try and achieve that. The thing is we are never going to be perfect. But it is better to try to change rather than to think we can stand still. Because the human reality is that we never stand still, we are always changing either for better or for worse. The Dylan song puts it "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying"

So we want to be born anew and know that change is scary for the human heart. Yet we need to put fear aside and realise that when we pray we are entering a spiritual dynamic that inevitably changes us.

So! Here is the check list... Like driving a car some things just need to happen before we proceed.

The key in the ignition is daily prayer and Scripture reading. Allocate some time for this. It doesn't have to be a huge amount of time. Persistence is more important than quantity.

Turning the key gets the engine on. This is the exciting bit - movement is imminent. You are listening to what God and your life is saying to you.

When you reach the point where you want to go forward you need to put your foot on the accelerator. God has shown you what you need to do, perhaps it is who to forgive, who to ask for help, perhaps what you need to give up. You are moving forward in the knowledge that God is with you.

Be bold - take that step

For reflection:

Isaiah 55:6-11 NIV

Seek the Lord  while he may be found;
call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord , and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the Lord . "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Dear Lord, we rely on your mercy, bless our lives with your abundant love, let us fully comprehend it. To know you is to know the beginnings of joy in our life. Amen