Today's Journal
IF SOMETHING CHANGES
Yesterday in the Journal entry I wrote concerning, ‘Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes.’ That is kind of the backdoor to a positive idea: ‘Something Changes if Something Changes.’ It is like the old quote: ‘Everyone wants change until it happens.’ Even if we think we are forerunners, pace setters, change agents, creatives, living on the edge, want something new and think we know ‘what’s happening’ … very few truly want or like change.But change is the nature and substance of the New Covenant as it contrasted with the Old Covenant. Jesus made the change at the Last Supper: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you” (Luke 22:20). The change was infusing us with an interior Kingdom of ‘grace and truth’ and releasing us from an exterior kingdom of ‘law and works.’ “…because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified” (Galatians 2:16).
Something Changes if Something Changes:
“Long ago God spoke to our ancestors by the prophets at different times and in different ways. In these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son. God has appointed him heir of all things and made the universe through him. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Hebrews 1:1-3). That’s a big change, ‘he has spoken to us by his Son.’ We are asked to listen.
“Therefore, every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom treasures new and old.” Jesus