Desperation for change can be costly. And without change, many of us can find ourselves in a difficult situation/predicament, so change can be necessary to get out. Change can be profitable, desirable, and at times a necessity…positive or negative, all depending on how it moves us forward. It derives from how we are re-evaluating the circumstances and situations in our lives. But we can be blindsided by our determination, desire and actions we’re willing to take for betterment in our lives which is mostly predicated on finances, for our survival and wellbeing, or something selfish. And that very change we’re pleading for can come with conflicts, devastation, disruption and destruction of our norms, instead of the improvements to our lives as we so desire. Like a woman giving birth, with every contraction it’s closer to the final stage of birthing so change can be. We never stop to think, in our great desperation, what the consequences can be, weighing the pros and cons. We must think to ourselves, “is our health, wellbeing, the concerns for ourselves, others and the world we live in more than money, accolades and power and control?

The driving force behind change can never be simply because you have choices; choice for something or someone that sounds like a good idea. Change should be, because you don’t have any other alternative. If we didn’t have free will then Jesus’ birth on earth and all that he accomplished in us should have been sufficient for us to have changed from sinners to saints. No more living with this bondage of sin within us. We as human beings are resilient, if we set our minds upon a thing, especially in desperation, nothing can stop us. And when we had great reverence, faith and fear in God people got married and didn’t divorce back in the day like they do now. Commitment is what enables us to get through the storms knowing it shall pass, it’s enough that the storm is disruptive to the things on the outside, we mustn’t allow it to penetrate the inside also. Having many choices can only lead to greed, confusion, and or disruption. Queen Elizabeth reigned on the thrown for 70 years, no one could take her place and regardless things were good or bad she still remained and the people had no other choice but to accept the good times and the bad as she was still their Queen. No matter how bad things may get, it never lasts. Like going through the four seasons, we can’t choose the one we favour to begin with, we must go through the chronological stages and accept the change when it comes even if it’s not our favourite season. Sometimes we must look at life the same way. We must stop throwing in the towel just because we have a choice, instead of fighting to the end.

I believe the reason for sin being so dominant in our world today is because after Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, for some of us we are not desperate enough for that change to have affected us, we have too many choices. If it wasn’t for the free will of choice, Jesus would definitely be our only alternative, nothing and no one else would be.

Whenever we desire change without praying to the Lord, who is our salvation, provider…lover of our soul for what we so desire for in our lives, that he may send an angel or come himself, unknowingly sometimes we get exactly what we want, that change alright, because of our freedom to choose. And looking back in retrospect when all hell has broken loose in our lives then, and then alone, we realize, or should realize we got what we asked for, the change, especially when you had a quiet and peaceful life before. Believing anyone or anything besides God can be the answer to our problems as Children of God, is blasphemous. “Christian, we should know our faith always belongs to God, and God alone, first, as the answer to our prayers.” The devil is wicked enough to place himself as the answer to our prayers, looking at us as being so incredulous. He did it to Adam and Eve and yet, has never stopped trying, but Jesus came. We’ve got to acknowledge and understand God’s power in us, through Jesus to overcome the deception and lies of the devil.

Wanting change is good, but is it purposeful, or self-gratifying? Because self gratification only lasts so long before finding yourself lonely and empty. Purposeful: you don’t lay down to die when situations get hard, you’re called to destiny way beyond self. This makes for the understanding that what we desire sometimes, is not good enough for our soul; the reason it seems like God has turned a deaf ear to our prayers, really is him preventing us from a fall too hard for us to recover mentally and a brokenness that in the end we put the blame on Him.

If humanity can get the understanding our Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever, Hebrews 13:8 If we’re in Christ, truly in Christ I believe change is not recognized or desired, it’s let it be and it is done moment. Change is a worldly concern. When God is all you need, nothing in the world is as relevant as people’s desires. You can live poor and still be rich, you can be sick and still healthy enough to be functional in society, blind, but see beyond darkness that there’s a real light in the world, deaf to world, but can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit in your heart and mind, lame legs to stand in the natural world, but running towards the Father.

We must put our trust and faith in God whenever we decide change is a necessity for our lives. God should be at the centre of our choices for change.