Nobody likes change do they? Especially the elderly!
Why is that? I believe because elderly people are so set in their ways, habits, lifestyle, ideology, etc.... that when something new comes they immediately reject it! 'That's not how we do things here', they say, or how about this one, 'in our day we would never do that!', it goes on and on.
When Jesus started His earthly ministry two thousand years ago, He changed everything! Especially for those who believed and followed Him. He totally went against the grain of all the religious establishments and traditions of men. But isn't that what God is supposed to do? Or should God bow to the will of man? His own creation? Of course not!
I personally like change, especially changes within myself! Because every time the Spirit of the Lord exposes some evil within me, I get set free from it! And that changes me! I become more and more like Christ everyday!
One of the main reasons the Pharisees hated Jesus was because He told them the truth about themselves, about their deeds, their hard hearts, and their traditions that nullified the commandments of God.
When the truth is brought to our attention by scripture or someone used by God to share that truth, the focus should be on repenting if we're in error, and crying out to God for forgiveness so we can be forgiven and healed, which results in change!
Matthew 10:34-39
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."
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