Being ready to change you attitude and more importantly your demeanor is important if you are changing your life. Once, I decided that I was going to get into shape. Each morning I would step on the scale and I would see the same weight though. It was very frustrating. I wanted to loose the weight but my actions were not matching my desires. Making changes though can be a very difficult thing. I hear about these crash diets where people loose an incredible amount of weight in a short time, but then it comes back. God knows you better than yourself, and he knows what is best for you. Does he want you to wake up one day and be a completely different person? I think that what he really wants is for you to change and become a better person but he wants you to do it in a way that is sustained. Tomorrow you could become a great Christian and follow the discipline of Jesus but if the next week you fall away again forever what good is it? The 12 Apostles were not perfect at the time Jesus chose them, but in the process of walking and following Jesus they learned and became stronger in the faith and his ways. Even after Jesus’s death the Apostles were not roaming the country side teaching the good word they were held up in the Upper Room praying trying to figure out what to do. It wasn’t until Jesus returned and gave them the gift of the Holy Spirit did they “complete their training” and were ready to go out into the world and start guiding people to Jesus so he could save their souls. As for us now being a good Christian is a monumental task but we must take care in our conversion and moving forward. It’s one step at a time and always focus on love. God is love and wants love in this world. Its best to start by finding a home, a church, to attend where we can learn and grow with a community to support us. Like a child we are carried, then we crawl and finally run like the wind. So must be our change to God’s ways. While we can loose the weight of sin in an instant with Jesus we need to take the time to change our habits so we don’t put that weight back on.
Mark 2:18-22
18Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 19And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 21No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins."
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