“But you can become someone else.”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus, (2003-09-04) from his book, Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul (Kindle Location 350). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

I was sitting today at Starbucks with a couple of my friends and I said that I was born a pessimist and the lady said, “No way, I can’t believe that.”

Well I was. One day I was looking at myself and decided that was one thing that I wanted to change. I wanted to be a positive person not a negative one so I set out to change and I have.

What about you? What is it that you want to change? Now I am always going to be fairly short. Being six foot is not an option but weighing less than 260 lbs. is. I set out to change that and I have lost 50lbs.

What do you want to change? 2 Corinthians 5:17 in the New Testament of the Bible gives us some hope here. It says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” That is a part of having a relationship with Christ. He changes some of those things that we don’t like about ourselves. So asking Him to become a part of your life is a great place to start in your change but then there are things that you will do to help in this transformation.

With my losing weight, I started walking and I changed my diet. Right now I am not eating any wheat products. That is making a difference. With my becoming a positive person, I read the newspaper from the back. I don’t spend too much time on the negative front sections. I read a Psalm in the Bible every day. That has helped my view of life. I don’t listen to negative talk radio or TV. I read positive books. I only have close friends who are positive. I know, I know, those of you who are negative say you are realists. So I don’t spend time with realists. You see, I changed my direction of focus and it has made a major difference in my view of life

Change is possible. It starts with a relationship with Christ and then a lot of discipline and hard work but it is worth it. I encourage you to start with Christ. He will help you with the rest. You see, He is in the resurrection business.

So what do you want to change?

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