Complaining About Change
Most of us do not like change! I am currently in the process of moving to the MeWe social media platform and it has taken a couple weeks to get used to all the changes!
I hate change just as much as the next guy.
Sometimes, change is a good thing whether we like it or not. In this case for instance, I am getting away from the negativity of fake news and out of control censorship!
Many will not try the change because it is just a pain to adapt to the new, right? They will think of reasons not to make the change, right? They will not want to do without something that they do like.
This has been the same for years. Check out this letter written to U.S. President Andrew Jackson, dated January 31, 1829 …
The canal system of this country is being threatened by the spread of a new form of transportation known as "railroads." The federal government must preserve the canals for the following reasons:
One. If canal boats are supplanted by "railroads," serious unemployment will result. Captains, cooks, drivers, repairmen and lock tenders will be left without means of livelihood, not to mention the numerous farmers now employed in growing hay for horses.
Two. Boat builders would suffer and towline, whip and harness makers would be left destitute.
Three. Canal boats are absolutely essential to the defense of the United States. In the event of the expected trouble with England, the Erie Canal would be the only means by which we could ever move the supplies so vital to waging modern war.
As you may well know, Mr. President, "railroad" carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by "engines" which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children.
The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed. – signed, Martin Van Buren, Governor of New York
(The irony is that this was taken from a book by Hans Finzel, who typed the chapter containing this story on his laptop computer while in a plane traveling 475 miles per hour at an altitude of 34,000 feet)
You see, by nature, human beings resist change. People are quick to criticize anything new, because the necessary changes frighten them (or are just an inconvenience)
At one time, people said that cars would never replace the horse and carriage.
Others said that the light bulb wasn't any better than the kerosene lamp.
Others declared that television would never replace radio as the primary source of entertainment.
When Alexander Graham Bell invented an instrument called the telephone, which enabled people to talk through a wire over great distances, he was almost laughed out of town!
In many cases Growth is Change and Change is Growth.(sermon link)
There is a church joke about trying to move the church piano from one side of the sanctuary to the other. The way it goes is that you have to do it one inch at a time each week so that no one gets upset about the sudden change. LOL.
It is funny but sad because there is some truth to it.
The Israelites murmured about being in the wilderness without the food they were used to eating. They wanted to go back to Egypt where they could eat what they were accustomed to! Crazy huh?
Today, many of us refuse to break the bondage we are in because we are accustomed to something that comes with that bondage! Just like the Israelites wanting to go back to Egypt because of their grumbling bellies for the pots of meat they were used to eating. You can read that story in Exodus 16.
So often in our lives we should embrace change, but we refuse because we like the “pots of meat” that comes with the bondage in our lives.
We must not focus on the negative or we will never be happy! Released from 400 years of slavery but belly aching for the food they were missing!
If we would focus on the good and give thanks to the Lord for all things, we would be a happier person. I promise.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Have a blessed day!
Comments
I'm not one for change and have a hard time with it. I have learned that it gets easier the more I have to use or do. Just like becoming a mom. I had no idea what to do. The more I changed a diaper the better I became at it. The more I had to fed my child the easier it became. It was because of love, (my passion), that I continued to learn how to be a better mother. I guess what I am saying is when you want or have a need to do something you get better at it.
Good word Tammy Van Horn
Thanks Doraine Chirco and Barbara Davis for the comments. We all struggle with change and sometimes just want to give up. I'm the worst sometimes at even trying to accept change. Preaching to myself this morning. Y'all have a blessed day
Amen. Change is hard to handle. Lord lead us please.
Amen