Learning how to monitor change

This week at Freedom Valley we take an important step on our jouney to See Change As Opportunity.

The step? We are learning what Jesus taught about how to Monitor Change!

Jesus taught his disciples about how to watch change as it happens and set themselves to ride the wave instead of being crushed by it. Here are some of his insights:

Get Shock Absorbers.

Jesus made it very clear that even good change (like believing in Him) should not cause us to expect like to be smooth. In fact, he said he did NOT come to bring peace but a sword. We get confused when we think "life should be less hard", or that "if we do the right things, people should agree with us." 

Life is just not like that, and it is more effective to prepare for tough times than to believe times should not be tough.

Grow a discerner

Learning to discern where you are at in life is not much harder than discerning the weather, yet most of us trudge through season after season without discerning what really matters, where we are heading, or what to do to prepare for the future. Jesus said: "you know how to discern the weather. Know how to discern the times"

Know the law of the trail.

If you are on a path in life, you WILL end up where the path leads you, right? Paths lead to certain conclusions, everytime, becasue that is what paths are for. Yet some of us are marching along witout thinking about the outcome of the particular path we are on. Jesus said, for example, that when we are on the way to court, we should think clearly about what the outcomes could be and work hard to make peace before we get to an outcome we don't like.