Change is inevitable. It will happen. That's just the way God made life, the Universe, the Heavens, to be. For if we were to never have change, the new would become old, and the old would never be able to renew itself, but rather just slip away forever. Therefore, to deny the change would be to deny the Devine plan of eternal living.

Take for instance a relationship between a man and woman. The first months of that relationship might seem to you like Heaven on earth. You love the way they laugh, you love the way they smile, you love their view on politics, you just seem to love EVERYTHING about this person. You even love the way they pick their teeth.

So one year passes and you still love the way they laugh, only now, at times it can be very annoying. You still love the way they smile, but you find yourself looking over your shoulders to make sure you're the only one their smiling at. You used to love their view on politics...well that was until they started supporting McCain, while you, of course, support Barack. LOL. And now-a-days, it seems like the picking of the teeth, is just, well, disgusting... A year becomes 2 yrs. 2yrs become what seems like eternity. You have learned some things about this person that you never knew and wish you still didn't know, and things you never knew but would to God that you did from the get-go. Because CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. Change will happen.
 
So what happens when change comes and you don't accept it? Well, it comes anyways. I told you it was inevitable! That's why you have to learn to ACCEPT the challenge of change. When a child goes from one stage of life (childhood), into the next (adulthood), they cross over that bridge called puberty. They go somewhere in life they have never been before. They experience some things in life they have never experienced. They now have a story of how they went from one end to the other.

Change can be uncomfortable. Change can be scary. Change can be one of those things that make you want to hide in the corner and face the wall, with a paper sack on your head. Yep, change will do that to you. Sometimes change can be less of a blessing, and more of a curse. Such as the accepting and understanding of change, to the lack and un-acceptance thereof. Either way, change is inevitable, change will happen.
 
I was reading the other day about how God told the Prophet to marry a harlot just to get a prophecy across to the Children of Yisra-El. Truth is, on reading that story, the average Christian would be like...NO WAY! What may be abnormal to you or me, He may look at, disguise, switch-up, and change, until it's unidentifiable by the fleshly eyes, and then call it "His own". The point is, in order to accept the challenge of change, you may sometimes have to accept what you would normally identify as crazy, stupid and maybe even wrong.

Just like God, change can be strange. Once you begin to acknowledge and accept the challenge of change, you can now look at the ways of God with an open heart and say - God I know this is not what I am accustomed to, I know your ways are not the ways of my traditions, but Mungu, just like the challenge of change, I accept your ways.
     
Like I mentioned before, change is inevitable. Change will happen, whether it is good or bad. It gets scary, it gets crazy, it gets out of your control. That's why it's called a challenge. But after the challenge, there is always a prize. Accepting the challenge of change will prepare you to accept the ways of God. So go ahead and accept it!

About The Author: Cherubim Jones is a student in the US. In this column she appropriately calls “Voice of the Cherub”, she shares her own faith lessons.

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