WORD: OC's 60-Day New Testament PlanSample

Now is the Time for Change I like to think of myself as a person who likes change. Of course, the kind of changes that I like are things that do not inconvenience me at all and are completely on my terms – like changing the throw pillows on my couch or picking a new lipstick color. But when it comes to real changes that will turn my comfortable world upside down, I find myself digging in my heels and finding every excuse under the sun to get out of it. I sense some frustration from the writer of Hebrews. It seems as though he was dealing with Christians with a similar attitude – they were struggling to change the way they believed about everything. And, really, I can’t blame them. Although I sympathize with these new and struggling Christians who were having to get used to the idea that this new King they had been waiting for was not going to have a throne on earth, but in heaven, these passages serve as a warning to me that my stubbornness and resistance to change may cost me some of life’s most blessed experiences. If you have been resisting the nudge of the Holy Spirit to make some real, life changing decisions or to change your attitude and expectations about something, now is the time to give in. Do the thing that is scary. Dive into the unknown. Give up the things that are holding you back and open yourself up to God’s true purpose for your life. The Hebrew Christians eventually allowed the Holy Spirit to change them and they never looked back. I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t regret it either. Written by Summer Lashley Staff Member, Oklahoma Christian University