Wednesday, May 9, 2012

You’re never too old to change!




“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship”  (Rom. 12:1). Hainley hillbilly rendition “Fix your attention on God.  You’ll be changed from the inside out”.

I like Chuck Swindoll’s practical writings and teachings and preaching.  He says “You’re over the hill when the stewardess offers you coffee, tea, or Milk of Magnesia; or you sink your teeth into a juicy steak, and they stay there; or there is more hair stuck in the drain than on your head. And  to that I would add “when we are no longer willing to change”. 

Alfred Nobel was Swedish chemist who made his fortune by inventing dynamite and other explosives used for weapons.  When his brother died, a newspaper accidentally printed Alfred’s obituary instead.  It described him as a man who’d become rich b y enabling people to kill each other in unprecedented numbers. 

Deeply shaken, he resolved to use his fortune to award accomplishments that benefited humanity – hence The Nobel Prize.  Nobel had the rare opportunity reevaluate his life towards the end, and still live long enough to do something about it.  

Jerry Lewis joked that the best wedding present was a film of the entire marriage ceremony.  He said when things got really bad at home he will go into his study and run the film backwards and at the end walk out a free man. 

But be advised “unwillingness to change is not restricted to the over the hill gang.  We have all run into people who are locked into the way they are and nothing short of Nobel’s dynamite would break them out of their bondages.

Soooo,  you will probably never read your obituary in the newspaper or run the film of your marriage backwards but you can make a choice to change,  which when we look back “it looks amazingly like “growth”.  

Blessings,

Gramps

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