"You can't change anyone but yourself." Ummm...okay. So what if in a moment of self-defense you shot the person and changed them from being alive to being dead? Might be an option if you can't escape and your life is in danger--as a matter of fact, it might be your only option,
Of course you and I can change.
It's called growth.
But as long as you spend more time looking at yourself, then you do not grow.
Instead, you find that you stagnate, frustrated that there is still bad thoughts and feelings in your life.
There is no greater pain than being all caught up in yourself, thoughts, feelings, and all the rest.
This revelation is new, and getting newer.
It took me so long to realize that peace is already outside.
Not turning on ourselves and churning about the failures that we see in ourselves.
Life is outside of us. Peace is outside of us, then we discover that His peace has found its way within.
In other words: we are changing.
Guess what? People do change, and for the better, too!
The Bibles talks about how God is in the people-changing business all the time:
"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3: 18)
and also
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 2: 12)
Guess what? God works through us to change others, too!
"Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences." (2 Corinthians 5: 11)
We persuade not with lies and cults, but the truth of God's Word!
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;" (1 Peter 3: 1)
Do not buy the AA lie: people change all the time, and they change for the better as they grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus (2 Peter 3: 18)
Of course you and I can change.
It's called growth.
But as long as you spend more time looking at yourself, then you do not grow.
Instead, you find that you stagnate, frustrated that there is still bad thoughts and feelings in your life.
There is no greater pain than being all caught up in yourself, thoughts, feelings, and all the rest.
This revelation is new, and getting newer.
It took me so long to realize that peace is already outside.
Not turning on ourselves and churning about the failures that we see in ourselves.
Life is outside of us. Peace is outside of us, then we discover that His peace has found its way within.
In other words: we are changing.
Guess what? People do change, and for the better, too!
The Bibles talks about how God is in the people-changing business all the time:
"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3: 18)
and also
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 2: 12)
Guess what? God works through us to change others, too!
"Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences." (2 Corinthians 5: 11)
We persuade not with lies and cults, but the truth of God's Word!
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;" (1 Peter 3: 1)
Do not buy the AA lie: people change all the time, and they change for the better as they grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus (2 Peter 3: 18)
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