“When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.” — John Maxwell
There are even songs written about change.
‘Everything Changes’ – Take That (1993)
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- We’re a thousand miles apart, but I still love you, I do
- Everything changes but you
- everything changes but you
- Everything changes but you
‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ – George Jones (1980)
7 The Lord told Joshua, “Today I will begin to make you a great leader in the eyes of all the Israelites. They will know that I am with you, just as I was with Moses. 8 Give this command to the priests who carry the Ark of the Covenant: ‘When you reach the banks of the Jordan River, take a few steps into the river and stop there.’” – Joshua 3:7-8 NLT
14 So the people left their camp to cross the Jordan, and the priests who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant went ahead of them. 15 It was the harvest season, and the Jordan was overflowing its banks. But as soon as the feet of the priests who were carrying the Ark touched the water at the river’s edge, 16 the water above that point began backing up a great distance away at a town called Adam, which is near Zarethan. And the water below that point flowed on to the Dead Sea[a] until the riverbed was dry. Then all the people crossed over near the town of Jericho. – Joshua 3:14-16 NLT
“It’s our perspective: How we view things is how we do things.” — John Maxwell
14 That day the Lord made Joshua a great leader in the eyes of all the Israelites, and for the rest of his life they revered him as much as they had revered Moses. – Joshua 4:14 NLT
22 Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea[a] when he dried it up until we had all crossed over. 24 He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the Lord’s hand is powerful, and so you might fear the Lord your God forever.” – Joshua 4:22-24 NLT
“There is a relationship between what we expect and what we experience.” — John Maxwell
6 The Israelites had traveled in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the Lord, and the Lord vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us—a land flowing with milk and honey. – Joshua 5:6 NLT
11 The very next day they began to eat unleavened bread and roasted grain harvested from the land. 12 No manna appeared on the day they first ate from the crops of the land, and it was never seen again. So from that time on the Israelites ate from the crops of Canaan. – Joshua 5:11-12 NLT
2 Joshua sent some of his men from Jericho to spy out the town of Ai, east of Bethel, near Beth-aven. – Joshua 7:2 NLT
7 Then Joshua cried out, “Oh, Sovereign Lord, why did you bring us across the Jordan River if you are going to let the Amorites kill us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side! – Joshua 7:7 NLT
Change is not change unless you change.
“Your expectations, more than anything else in life, determines your reality.” — John Maxwell
Fact # 1
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- “You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”
Fact # 2
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- “We need action in order to call our forward movement a transition.”
Fact # 3
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- “We don’t need to stay stuck in yesterday, we need to be in the present, and we need to be moving forward to our future.”
Fact # 4
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- We are living in changing times, and there have been and will always be changing times, yet Jesus modeled for us how to be, and what to do in those times.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. – Hebrews 13:8 NKJV
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. – 1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV
58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. – 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV