…. you could change?
New Year is a popular time to make resolutions:” I will take more exercise, I will study harder, I will be nicer to
people, I will quit that bad habit.” Sadly we discover that however lofty our original intention, we soon fall back into
old habits. There’s a Bible proverb which runs: “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?” and
the writer concludes: “Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.” (Jer 13: 23)
We soon have to grudgingly admit: “You are what you are, and no amount of trying will make you any different.”
But just when we’re about to despair, we come across a man who said: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me
and drink. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
This wasn’t ‘pie in the sky’;‘ He really meant what He said. And those who believed him were radically changed;
so much so that they began a revolution. When two of them came to a city, their impact was such that its citizens
claimed: “These men have turned the world upside down”.
You can’t change by yourself, but there is Someone who offers real lasting change for the asking.
You can have it on His terms.
