Living a Mature Life requires Changes!
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PEOPLE FIND PEACE and HOPE
(John 10:10)
(MAY 6th, 2020)
Living a Mature Life
requires Changes!
Friend, it's obvious that a doctor isn't finished with his or her education upon graduation from medical school or with the completion of a residency. Too many new things are unfolding in their discipline to stand still. You see, doctors are constantly faced with new diseases, (such as our current COVID-19 Virus), new therapies, new drugs - it must be absolutely daunting to try to stay abreast of progress in medicine and to offer one's patients the best available information and treatment.
However, what if you are a teacher, mechanic, or engineer? What if your field is accounting, computer technology, or music? Perhaps it might be sales, transportation, or government? In fact, I challenge you to name a field of endeavour in which things are simply "frozen in time" and where change isn't constant. Even historians and archaeologists have to update their notes constantly as new information comes to light.
The Scripture teaches us that only God doesn't change. "I am the Lord, and I do not change" (Malachi 3:6). "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).
Interestingly, there are no equivalent Biblical statements about men and women who have been created in the image of God. To the contrary, the Bible says we must be about the business of change all the time. So we need to stop complaining about it.
Whatever else it is, repentance is change - of mind, objects, of affection, and lifestyle. The same is true of transformation - from sinner to saint, self-absorbed, to Good Samaritan, carnal to spiritual. To live is to change!
Friend, to become more like our unchanging God and to live by the immutable principles of faith, hope, and love is to change and be changed spiritually. In the words of John Henry Newman: "In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
I once heard a preacher boast that he hadn't changed his mind on anything the Bible says in forty years. If his boast was supposed to have impressed his listeners, it has the opposite effect on me. Because anybody who hasn't learned more and changed much in four decades has wasted a huge block of his relatively short life.
The truth is, that the man or woman, who never changes an opinion, admits an error, or alters a lifestyle will never know the thrill of being wiser tomorrow than they are today.
There's an old hymn that says: "Time is filled with swift transition / Naught of Earth unmoved can stand / Build your hopes on things eternal / Hold to God's unchanging hand." I suspect Jennie Wilson who wrote those words more than a hundred years ago, did so because she had discovered even then that change is here to stay.
Friend, if you feel the need for greater inner peace and security in your life, Discovering A Better Life Bible Study will help you discover these qualities for yourself. Through our stimulating, true to the Bible, correspondence courses you will come to realize that legitimate Christianity brings peace, not disturbances – contentment, not dissatisfaction.
The Discovering A Better Life Bible Study program was launched from Albany in 1985 by a group of non-denominational Christians whose objective was to encourage a balanced, systematic study of the Bible.
These Christians understood that a feeling of security, which is basic to good mental health, is a matter of the spirit and not of physical things.
Since its establishment, Discovering A Better Life Bible Study correspondence courses have helped many men and women throughout Australia, as well as many other places in the world, to experience a meaningful, personal relationship with God.
Many of our students have enjoyed and benefited from the knowledge that Christianity is a way of life that provides spiritual security and encourages joy, peace, contentment, happiness, hope and faith. It is also a teaching religion, whose foundation is based on the inspired word of God.
Friend, the proven, systematic study of the Bible that is offered through the Discovering A Better Life Bible Study program is a FREE public service which permits you to study the Bible in the privacy of your own home. It does not obligate you to become involved in organized religion and there is absolutely no charge for the materials you receive. Nor is there ever any solicitation for funds.
To enroll in our FREE Home Bible Study, simply send us your request, along with your postal address, and we will then mail your first set of lessons.
For further information, please contact Discovering A BETTER LIFE, P.O. Box 1540, Albany, Western Australia 6331 Or Phone us on: (08) 98 418 418
You may also Email us at: abl-alb@omninet.net.au
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
To mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
(Henri Bergson)
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