“Can you break a $20?”
Change is that monetary category that is made to feel “lesser than”. If you’re holding a fifty or hundred dollar bill, you’re enjoying the feeling and don’t really want it broken. But once it’s broken, the smaller denominations and ensuing change just aren’t quite the same. Change is something that we sometimes leave as a restaurant tip. Perhaps drop it in the pail for a busker or easily say “keep the change”.
Change is leftovers. What was once whole is now broken. The results are change.
Kind of like life.
We tend to look for a change after we’ve been spent. After we’ve been broken, used, exhausted, fed up. We then look for change.
I’m tired of this hairstyle—time for a change. I’m bored with my long-term, full time 10+ year career—time for a change.
I’m tired of __________________ (insert your own boredom of the moment)–
Time for change.
No wonder why we’re so reluctant to make a change. We fear the unknown; what maylie around the bend.
When we go into change with a negative attitude, we feel the negative all throughout the change.
But then we see the results. And they’re usually pretty spectacular.
Before Jesus, we’re messed up. Ugly. Rude. Selfish. Inconsiderate. Unloving. Unloveable. Unworthy.
But when we finally let go and surrender completely to Him??
We’re cleaned up. Beautiful. Kind. Self-less. Considerate. Loving. Loveable. Worthy.
We’re changed and not left over.
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