Sunday I began the adventure of seeing if I could fit in one of my suits. I have 3 suits…from this century.  I refuse to buy any more suits at my present Sumo wrestling weight. Sunday was the day that I reached the max…actually beyond max of one of the suits to contain my growing belly. It was a sad day. Something had to change or nothing was going to fit.

Week after week, I had blown off working out because of injuries and not wanting to try anything new. The day of reckoning had arrived…I reckon I had better do something.

At the same time, I had been thinking about buying a new lap top. I travel all the time and the one I had was six years old and had been dropped hard twice. Everything still worked…most of the time but the day was approaching when…well, you know…it would pass…and all the pictures, sermons, etc. with it.   So I ventured to the Apple Store to buy…an apple. Thirty minutes later, I was the proud owner of a new computer.

I get it home and unwrap it expecting it to have life changing qualities. Being the tech savvy guy that I am I discover quickly that the new macs don’t display the hard drive on the desk top. What kind of #$% would do that. Forty-five minutes later we find (my son-in-law) out how to display it on the desktop.

Then I notice there is no iMovie or idvd. I finally figure out how to display iMovie and load some video clips. I just wanted to see if idvd worked. iMovie was so different and there was no idvd program. You have to buy it separately. All the changes irritated me so much that in the morning I was going to take the computer back.

Then the Lord showed me that change is sometimes painful. It is that way spiritually. We get comfortable in our spiritual routine and become resistant to change…God’s change. Yes, it hurts (I am sore today from working out with weights yesterday) to change, but change is necessary or we become obsolete and unnecessary. I don’t want to be obsolete like an old 8 track tape player (some of you don’t even know what that is). I want God to use me now. I want to be pliable in His hands to make all the changes He wants to make in me. Let God change you. It hurts but it is worth it. Pastor Bob