A Day of Change

It has been a day for change.  In some ways, every day is a day of change for no day is like the one we lived yesterday.  But, today was one marked by letting go some stuff, changing some things around, and bringing in the new.  A trip to the furniture store a few days ago brought a sofa home to replace one worn out by nearly fourteen years of sitting and a chest I did not know I needed until I saw it.  In a house as small as the one which stands on the farm, the new is not added without turning loose of the old, or moving some of the old around to new places.  Such has been the day.  It has been a day of change.   

Few of us really like a lot of change in our life, but the truth is that it is as sure as taxes and death.  Change is what happens to us every day.  A saying which has become one of life's mantras is "You never stand in the same river twice."  What is also true is that we never see the same person in the mirror.  Everything including each one of us is constantly changing.  

One of the big changes which takes place in us points to the work of Christ in our heart.  II Corinthians 5:17 says, "If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation, everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new."  When we say "Yes" to Christ there is a work of the Spirit done which brings into being a new person.  But, as a part of the ongoing creation which is never the same today as it was yesterday, or will be tomrrow, we, too, are always changing.  At conception we start the journey Home to the place prepared for us by Christ and as we go along the work of Christ in us is constantly making us into someone new.