Changes

Changes are something we all experience in life. Whether we welcome these changes or not, they will arrive in our life. The thing is, to try to be prepared for when these changes do come. Of course we never truly know when a change is going to happen but we can be prepared for it, if we have God in our life. One won't be completely blindsided by changes if they are prepared.

I have been faced with many changes in my life. I have not always been totally prepared for them but I have at least been expecting most of them when they happened as God saw fit to make me aware of the circumstances that foretold of the change that was to come. If we are watchful, as God tells us to be ever watchful, then we will see the signs that point to the change that is coming. This does not just apply to when the Lord returns to this earth that He tells us to be watchful for He tells us to be ever watchful.


2 Timothy 4:5 5)But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

1 Peter 5:8 8) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Change is not always good and it does not always come from God. We, as mankind, are given a choice in things. Sometimes we choose to change in a way that God does not want us to change in. Sometimes others change in a way that God does not ordain or that God does not agree with. No matter what the change is or when it happens, if one is watching they will be aware of the signs that show a change is coming. If these signs are heeded, one can be prepared for the change that is coming.

Matthew 24 tells us of how we are to know of when the time for the Lord's return is drawing nigh, by watching the signs that the Lord told us would be before His return. In the same way that the Lord told of the signs that would precede His return, He tells us of the changes that are coming in our life if we but heed the signs He is showing us. It is that, too often, we are blinded to the signs that are being given, merely because we do not want to see the truth. Some think that if they do not acknowledge that something is wrong, that something is happening, that the change will never arrive. Sort of if I don't see the signs then it isn't going to happen or ignore it because I do not want to see it and it will go away. Sadly when the change finally arrives it will devastate the one who has chosen to ignore the signs. But one can be prepared if they heed the signs that God has given them.