Change Something = Change Ourselves
Renungan Harian / 29 March 2015
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1974Lamentation 3:40
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
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Nobody can change everything. But anyone
can change himself. When life seems so chaos, knowing which to change and which
to change not, can bring a great impact.
We cannot change our past. We cannot so
easily change people around us; parents, spouse, or children. We cannot change
gift and talents God gave us, flaws we have, and we cannot bring back the
people we love.
The greatest suffering in such chaos is
trying to find peace and must accept that we cannot change all things. We must
change for the sake of people we love and of ourselves.
This allows us
to realize that we have no ability to change everything, yet we are able to
change ourselves. When this world is in chaos, Jeremiah wrote in Lamentation 3:40 “Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the Lord.”
Is there anything in our life that doesn’t
please God? Crisis times help us to focus our eyes to the most important thing—JESUS.
To re-arrange our life according to the Lord, we need to evaluate ourselves. We need to examine every
aspect in our life in details. We need to look back on our relationship with
God, spouse, children, and colleagues/friends. We need to search for bad habits
that destroy us all this time.
Many times, we might pity ourselves due
to chaos in this life. But it wastes our time. Remember that nobody can change
everything, but anyone can change himself. When life seems so chaos, God
reminds us to examine ourselves. When you have changed, then you can be the
change for others.
Change begins with humility to change ourselves first.
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Apakah Anda rindu menerima Yesus sebagai Tuhan dan Juruslamat pribadi dalam hidup Anda?
Ikuti doa ini sekarang:
“Tuhan, saya mengakui bahwa saya orang berdosa. Saya membutuhkan Engkau. Saya percaya bahwa darahMu sanggup menghapuskan segala dosa dan kesalahanku. Saat ini, saya mengundang Engkau, Yesus Kristus, masuk dalam hati dan hidupku menjadi Tuhan dan Juruslamatku. Saya menyerahkan hidupku bagiMu dan melayaniMu.
Dalam nama Yesus aku berdoa. Amin”
