A Beginning IS Change

In his article, George Olive shares that, “Leaders must work together to communicate and to remind people that God is the One who creates wonderful gifts from what appears to be chaos.” He explains that during creation, in God’s infinite wisdom, that God chose to create everything else before He created humans. What does this say about us and how we might object to change? When one thinks about it, if we were there in the beginning, I’m sure as well as George is, that there would have been some objections to what God was creating. Such as creepy crawly things, who needs those? How about rocks? George points out, “they hurt our feet.” Of course that’s because Adam and Eve could not go to DSW warehouse for a good deal on shoes or boots. Our model as leaders, as to handling change and or opposition, can be taken from Jesus. He faced opposition daily, yet He handled it with love, patience, tolerance, kindness and a whole lot of prayer. Our ambition as leaders then takes on the format of keeping the congregation focused on the pursuit of God’s will for the church, not the pursuit of happiness as Hollywood would have us believe. We need to stay focused and remember how God created such a wonderful place for us out of the chaos in the beginning. He just may have been able to accomplish so much in so little time, simply because He didn’t have to seek the approval of a committee.