Prepare for and manage change
By Pastor Dr. Aggrey Soyekwo
Exodus 16:2-3 "In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
The Israelites had been delivered from Egyptian slavery. They had been there for 430 years. They were destined to Canaan, a land of freedom and plenty. Afew days into the desert, they faced the challenge of water and meat. They complained bitterly against Moses and Aaron, preferring to have remained in slavery than face challenges on their way to freedom in the land flowing with milk and honey.
Such is the difficulty of change. Much as they had cried out to be delivered from their task masters, witnessed the many miracles God performed in their deliverance, they were still scared of the unknown. They couldn’t trust the same God to safely take them to Canaan. They wished to have remained in Egypt in slavery than go to new places by faith in God. This is how many people resist change and miss out on what God has prepared for them.
Change can be very distressing to undertake. The lazy, unprepared, undetermined, fearful and risk averse will give up and rather maintain the status quo than go through the stress and pain of change for the better. And yet change is inevitable in life and the only means to transformation and progress. It will always come, one way or another. Instead of ignoring, prepare and face it. If change finds one unprepared, it can be destructive. If mentally prepared, you will not be stressed whatever the discomfort it comes with. It will be to your advantage.
Romans 12:2 "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
Shalom children of God