Life Changes
Recently, in our Leadership Development class, a movie of a sermon was presented. The topic was on change. The preacher used an example in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the popular TV show. The purpose of the program is to take someone’s home that is in dire need of fixing and making it new. In the end, a family gets a nicer, redone home to live in.
The Extreme Makeover example represents what many people hope for in their lives. People like change. They enjoy seeing something awful be taken and made into something better. This is the case with celebrities. If a famous actor or musician begins to fall into drug and/or alcohol addiction, but then seeks treatment, the media praises the sober celebrity. The same can be said about any kind of recovery, whether it be from poverty, depression, mental illness, disease, etc. People want to be made better people.
People look to all different sorts of things for comfort from the stresses and pains of the world. There are plenty of ways to improves ones status as a person in the world, but the only way to truly turn one’s life around is to find Jesus and make him apart of his life. I can safely say that Christ has played an important part in turning my life around. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a very good kid, and I always have. I grown up in a Christian family all my life, and I wouldn’t be the person I am today otherwise. Despite the influence of my family, as a younger boy, I never really got it in my head how important it was to keep close contact with the Lord. I knew that Christ was my Savior, but I figured I was good enough, and that I didn’t need any other improvements in my life. Then, one day, when I was about 13 or 14, something clicked in my head. I came to the awful realization that I wasn’t really close to God at all, and I saw that I wasn’t really the golden child that I thought I was. From that point on, I sought out God and made a point to incorporate Him into every part of my life. Now, I can safely say that this has caused a tremendous change in my life. I have to come to care more about what God wants, not what I want. This attitude has changed the decisions I make in life for the better. I know my story is nothing like a recovering junkie, but I feel that this change in my life is a true example of how God has given me an “extreme makeover” of my own.