One of the most frustrating things about getting older isn’t fading eyesight or dwindling strength. In fact, it is not even the aches and pains.
For me, the worst side of growing older is, you know too much. Life has taken you down so many roads.
You have seen so much that you know too much for your own good. So often when people tell me that so and so has changed I have to bite my tongue.
From years of life I have learnt that people don’t change. Yes, people can change their own behaviour, but they are still the same. Most of us slow down when we see a traffic official. Why? Have you changed? No, but the pain of paying a fine makes you change your behaviour and you slow down.
People change when the pain is too much or the prize is big enough.
It sounds so negative when a pastor confesses that he does not believe that people can change.
No! That is your assumption. I don’t believe that we can change ourselves but I know that God can change people. God does not focus on changing our behaviour, he works on changing our hearts and minds. Once that happens our behaviour will follow suit.
Next time someone claims to have changed, remember that actions speak louder than words.
P.S Time will tell. Amen.
