A Change Worth Making

“Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while

he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Acts 24:31-32

 

 

I remember an incident several years ago in our family that reminds me of the subject of ‘change’ we looked at yesterday.

We had some family visiting and our daughter was not behaving well.

I sent her to her room and told her: “Don’t come out until you’ve changed!”

Ten minutes later she came out of her room with a new set of clothes on.

At first we didn’t understand so I asked her:

“Amanda what are you doing out here?”

She responded: “You told me not to come out until I changed, are these clothes alright!”

Yes, we laughed because she had totally misunderstood the ‘change’ we were expecting.

 The Bible tells of two disciples were walking on the road to Emmaus.

It says their faces were ‘downcast’ and they said this:

“…but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel…”

They were speaking of Jesus, to Jesus, not knowing it was Him.

There had been a lot of ‘changes’ in their world in the last few days.

They failed to understand why what had taken place needed to take place.

At least, that is, until Jesus opened their eyes.

My daughter ‘changed’ her clothes because that is what she honestly understood our request to be.

Sometimes we look at change in our own lives and perceive it to be a threat or a bad thing when, in fact, God is orchestrating that change for our good.

We want to simply ‘change’ clothes and He is after ‘changed’ hearts.

Read the account in Luke 24 of the two disciples.

Discover the ‘change’ to them when they understood Gods’ whole plan concerning all that had taken place in the last few days.

Ask God to walk alongside you and open the eyes of your heart to understand His purposes behind the changes you are facing.

As He did with those two disciples He will do for you.

He can take the doubt, fear and anxiety and change it to trust, courage and peace.

That’s a change worth making!