Can we accept change?

Are people allowed to change?

Might sound easy enough, but are people allowed to change?

Once people change, do we accept the fact that they change or do we only remember the old?

I believed that I have change of the past couple of years.

Yet people often will come back and remember the person that I was.

Why do we get wrapped into this?

How do we get wrapped into this?

Last year I had a talk with Randy Burghdoff about this matter.

We were talking about being remembered.

Randy years ago had blue hair.

Yet when his name came up around the Church some people didn't know him by name.

So they would say, "He was the one with blue hair."

They would quickly respond, "Oh yeah, now I would remember him."

Randy hasn't had blue hair in two years yet that was the only thing they remembered about him.

Though I only talk to Randy once or twice a year over the past couple of years.

You can seen how much he has grown.

Still some people will only know him as the blue hair kid.

Why do we have trouble letting go of the past in order to move forward?

Jesus changed and when he came back home he dealt with the same things.

Matthew 13 some of 54-57…

"Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked. ⁵⁵ "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? ⁵⁶ Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" ⁵⁷ And they took offense at him.

But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."

They couldn't understand where Jesus came from.

Isn't he related to this person and that person, how did he get this knowledge?

They didn't recognize how this person has changed and therefore had little faith.

I get stuck into this trap.

We get stuck into this trap.

People can change, improve and get better.

The person I am today is not the person I was two years ago, five years ago or 10 years ago.

There might be some of the same qualities (Whether you love or hate them), but I have changed.

You have changed too.

There is nothing wrong with change, but we sometimes can't accept how people have changed.

Why is this?

I have heard people used this against ministers going back to their hometown Church.

"People will only remember who you used to be and they will hold that against you," a minister told me.

Wow, who would have thought the Church would have been like that?

Last year I played hockey with a guy that was an elder at a Church.

I knew one of the ministers at that Church and they applied for the Sr. Minister opening.

This former elder told me, "Yeah there was just too much history with that person at this Church, there was no way we would truly consider him as Sr. Minister."

How did we get stuck in this trap?

When did we turn away from change?

I think God gave us Jesus to change us, to mold us into a new person.

We aren't the person we were, we are a new person.

How do we get people to accept people change?

What do you think?

Have a great day.