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You know it's amazing how much in life never really changes. When we are young.....teenagers, we experience so much and our world is opened to the reality of lifes beauty and uglyness. Then our 20's come....we mature and maybe hit a time of idealism due to the fantasy of what life we want to build for ourselves. Time passes.....the life you built is there......time passes.....you know that YOU have changed physically, matured emotionally, grown intellectually, etc.
Then.....comes an opportune time for Satan to step in. He knows the truth about each of us and I think watches us with such a keen eye. At that opportune moment he puts you in a position that he knows is ALL YOU. And it all you because although we've done all that growing these years, we are still basically the same! The things we like, enjoy, get us upset, get us turned on, whatever, he knows!
Then, at that Moment that he has been patiently waiting for......it's all there....just waiting for us. Hopefully, during that 'building time', we were also building our faith and relationship with God......because it is only through his strength that we are able to make the RIGHT choice!
The funny thing is that there is a little comfort in knowing that things really never change! The same things that made all those EXPERIENCES for us in our teens, are still there in our thirties......and I have to guess, 40's, 50's..... That inate thing about people that drives our instincts....its always there and never changes!
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There is little comfort in that. I find it sad that the things I dislike about some people are unlikely to change and I'll probably always be bothered by them because I'm not likely to change and, therefore, I'll probably never be as close to some people as I'd like to be.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I believe that change is always possible, even if only temporarily. If something in a person's world is different (a person, a situation) then it becomes hard for them to stay the same. Change happens.
So maybe we just have to keep trudging forward with our eyes on our goals and hope for the best.