Change Your Mind Sometimes

When an expectation is not met, something has to change. Change the entire expectation, change some variables, change yourself or change your mind.

Sometimes it's necessary to rethink our position and our actions despite how fervently we made them and how long we've held them or been doing them. The perfect example is God. The all-knowing reconsidered his position and his actions then changed his mind more than once.

God wanted to kill all the Hebrews except Moses. Moses beseeched God and God changed his mind and spared the Israelites. (Exodus 32:7-14)

After God told King Hezekiah he was about to die, King Hezekiah prayed and God allowed him to live 15 years longer. (Isaiah 38:1-6)

If God, the infallible, knows it makes good sense to have a change of mind sometimes, we'd better change our mind from time to time as well.

Changing our mind may be the best decision, no matter how long we've been in our jobs, relationships or held onto beliefs. Length of time doesn't necessarily make a decision right. There ain't no shame in anyone's game who's trying to change.

One of the greatest abilities we have is the ability to change our mind. It gives us the opportunity to remake, reorder, reinvent, recreate and reestablish our lives. Changing our mind sometimes changes everything.

Technorati Tags:
Change your mind, decisions, expectation, God, infallible, reinvent